Home again, home again.

Ahhh. It's quiet in the house. Joe has taken Daisy out for a run, no TV, no sound. . . How often do we have the time to enjoy silence? How often do we fill the silence with list-making or busywork? I vote for silence. Finding a quiet niche each day and fill it with nothing. And then, slowly transition into prayer or meditation or just breathing deeply. There is an exercise in Breathwalking where you walk while concentrating on one sense at a time. First seeing, looking intensely at your surroundings, then hearing - tuning everything else out, then smelling, then tasting. I usually close my eyes as much as I can without walking into a tree. At the very end, you open your eyes and tune in all your senses and it's just like an explosion. Ahhhh.