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Getting quiet
“There’s a deep, sweet, peaceful sense that comes when wordlessness moves in and the verbal mind drops away.” ~Martha Beck
Yesterday I started my routine at sunrise with a mug of coffee, then worked on Monday’s Life Lines post. As soon as I shared that post with all of you, I spent the next few hours finishing a newspaper column before sending it off to the editor. In the evening, my husband and I met another couple for a birthday dinner and chatted for two hours before heading home. That’s a lot of words in one day.
After I post this, I plan to savor a quiet morning — a chance to be still and let the peace of an unscheduled day sink in. Communication is a wonderful thing, but as Martha Beck reminds me, sometimes wordlessness is what I need more. ~CL
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