Q is for Quiet

Q is for Quiet.

I use to crave quiet, when my nest was full. I would hear my kids argue- "It's my turn", "Ma-did you wash my uniform?"  "Whose turn is it to the let the dog out?"  "I missed the bus."...etc.  

I couldn't wait to find a quiet moment in my day.  I worked in a fitness facility-where there was loud music, the cranking of the machines, gossip and woe is me stories at the water cooler, and a few proud peacocks strutting their stuff.  

Maybe we should add quiet to our to-do lists.  

Early mornings-when I step out on my back deck, I hear the birds chirping, the wind waltzing with the trees, and embrace my world waking up. It is short lived before I hear the kids next door argue on their way to the bus stop, the motorcycles reviving their engines-we have three in my neighborhood-this creates a scolding session of barking, by my puppy-Maggie. 

We miss sound, when it becomes our background music-even the noise.  When my daughter went to college-I started cranking her favorite tunes-loud.  I missed my kids' energy, their sounds and noise.   My son left a bit before, but he was rarely here-work, college, girlfriend.  He would game some nights until 2am and his laughter would wake me. 

Now, the kids' sounds come and go.  My son was here last weekend-with his two dogs. So, three dogs barking.  He has a beagle/lab mix  who howls a haunting song when a firetruck goes off. 

 I miss their moments of magic.  These days,  I have a rotation of quiet and then sound and noise.  My daughter will be home for a few weeks in May.   My house will breath differently-there will be singing-she and her fiance were both in a cappella groups and Brenden beat boxes.  

  It will be Iced coffee and youtube videos-they will sing and perform and then say,

"Let's watch a tiny house show."

 How do you find moments of quiet?  

Someone said to me-"We need more quiet when we get older"

I don't agree-what do you think?

I have always needed quiet even when I was really young.  I was an only child for 6 1/2 years-before my baby brother arrived with colic.  Quiet time-for me is time to create, to connect the dots of color in my day, to surf my memories and connect with my soul.  

 In solitude, I can sift the shore of my memories and find treasure.

When it is quiet-I notice the signs spirit sends me~

Where is your favorite place to find quiet?

I didn't notice at first, but there are a lot of birds in this post-perhaps quiet gives our ideas-a chance to soar, to dream and bask in the sunlight.