I started reading the book One Square Inch of Silence, by Gordon Hempton about a month and a half ago, finishing it last night. The book tracks his travels across the United States from Washington State to Washington, DC. The book is well written in largely a conversational tone and is for the most part [...]
I’ve commented several times about my search of silence and how it is difficult to find. I’ve known for a while that I’m not the only one in the world who feels this way. Recently, I’ve been reading a lot of articles and books about silence and I think I’m coming to a conclusion that [...]
I’ve developed a tendancy to rush out the door in the morning. This is usually because I’m running later than I want to be since I didn’t get up on time (5:30 AM so I don’t feel so bad about constantly hitting the snooze button). This usually means not having breakfast and not making my [...]
Frank wrote about the need for silence. Lately, I’ve been having a hard time finding enough quiet time again. It is so freakin hard to find time with no noise. I was trying to turn off the radio in the car, and avoid television for a while back in December. But I’ve strayed from those [...]
let’s make a formal request for silence in the unnatural world of alarm clocks car horns, radio, television, incessant conversations of co-workers on speakerphone a constant craving for an absence of noise grinds against my grain producing a pumping, thumping behind my eye then stabs my temple turn off the car, shutdown computer, kill the [...]