We are a culture consumed with it's gadgets. Gadgets comes in just about any size, shape and memory. Colors are as varied as the candies you find in a bag of M&Ms. We sit with our gadgets, ride with our gadgets, exercise with our gadgets, study with our gadgets, and constantly think of new ways we can be with our gadgets. Okay, I'm guilty of excessively overstating our excessive obsession with gadgets. But hey, when I hear first hand accounts of teens texting each other while eating dinner at the same table, it does make a point.
I've been thinking recently about "quiet"; it's place and value in life. In the book, One Square Inch of Silence, Gordon Hempton quotes from Chief Seattle's letter to President Franklin Pierce in 1855 regarding the proposed purchase of the tribes land: "And what is there to life if a man cannot hear the lonely cry of the whippoorwill or the arguments of the frogs around a pond at night?" The arguments of frogs around a pond. I love it. The imagery is something I get. Could it be that in our obsession with gadgets, we miss some of the most beautiful music being made.
How do you find quiet?
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