Suppose that I tingled a batch of coins in my pocket or dropped some quarters on a marble floor. If you were to close your eyes and listen to the sound that money makes, what would it remind you of?

... A bank teller spilling out a deposit for counting?... A child shaking a piggy bank in hopes that a coin will slip through the slot?... A clerk dropping the money from your purchase into a register?... An expectant gambler at the fair, trying to make a penny land between the lines?... A woman searching through a change purse, trying to locate money for a parking meter?... A cafeteria cashier pushing a button that lets two dimes and a few pennies rattle down a metal slot?

What does the sound of loose change remind you of? Have you ever thought of this as a sound of the passion? Have you ever as…