100 days of gratitude – Day 2 - Silence
I am grateful for silence. In our world, there is near constant background noise. Some chosen, music or the radio - others unchosen, construction or traffic.
Fortunately, there is still silence available - if we choose to seek it. I am especially grateful for no longer living in a big city, with the consequent noise. To live, now, in a place where there aren’t constant passing cars and within walking distance of a forest.
As an absence of an absence it is somewhat hard to notice when it is missing. But to sit quietly, to open space for thought without distraction, to notice the silent subtle whispers on the shore of sensation – is all a blessing.
But now, listening to the silence, there might be a little too much coming from the room my kids are playing in...