quiet

spent the day yesterday more or less in silence - no radio or iTunes - and enjoyed it.
heard birdsong and distant police cars and builders doing stuff up the road and kids playing in their lunch-hour.
found it hard to be still in myself though - i'm too used to thinking about stuff; as sue likes to remind me, my head is full of rubbish...!
so no great insights here, just that i need to practice silence much more - to spend more time in the quiet, to learn how to be still.

song for my funeral = 'down there by the train' by tom waits

si