Aha, You Thought I Had Forgotten . . .

No, I haven't forgotten about all the lovely words that I plan to implement this year but just now I feel I am returning from the walking dead.  Somewhere on my journey home I picked up a flu bug.

The first week of January I used the word 'tenderness' and received many lovely comments on that word choice.  And here we are in week five of January; I will share my word for this week.

'Silence':  my dictionary says that it could be a period of time without speech or noise . . .

And that is what I needed this week.  When I talk or laugh I start to cough and I am very tired of coughing.

But there is much more to silence than my body comfort. . .

"Somewhere we know 
that without silence words lose their meaning,   without listening speaking no longer heals,
that without distance closeness cannot cure."
-Henri J. M. Nouwen

"Quiet is peace.  Tranquility.  

Quiet is turning down the volume knob of life.  

Silence is pushing the off button.  

Shutting it down.  All of it."

-Khaled Hosseini

Breathing deeply and just smiling.

Be well.  Please!