How many times a day do you check your email?  facebook? twitter?  Is “quiet time” a term you equate with children being punished?  When was the last time you just stopped to listen?

Health gurus urge calm and peace – that’s their job, but when silence becomes the topic for mainstream journalists who are usually the most verbose – must be too much noise in the air.

New York Times journalist Bob Herbert admonishes us to “Tweet Less, Kiss More”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/17/opinion/17herbert.html?th&emc=th

and Nancy Arcayna in the Honolulu Star/Advertiser tells us “empty moments can purify the soul”

http://www.staradvertiser.com/features/20100713_Soothing_silence.html

Enough said – time to be quiet for awhile…