I never realized how silent this area can be until the last week when, alone with my thoughts once again, I could hear the crickets chirping. So rhythmic a pattern and so reassuring in a way that it soothed me to sleep during troubled times. These last few weeks have been particularly difficult, not only with work but otherwise as well. The details could be the stuff of a Lifetime movie-- suffice to say a bad one, at that. With the sudden lack in conversations, I've been forced to turn my thoughts to the silence and what is left to fill it. The calm chirping, the synchronization of the ancient code has made things somewhat better.

so listen to the chirping, take a minute to really reflect. then listen to this: