WordPress Prompt: See How Long You Can Sit In Silence (3)

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WordPress Prompt: See How Long You Can Sit In Silence (2)

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See how long you can sit in silence. Before you start, check the clock and guess at how long you can do it for. Then when you’re done: how close was your guess? Surprised? What did you experience while siting? Was it pleasant or frustrating?

This was a redundant task for me, because I sit in silence every day.  I see Spud off to school at 07:45; feed the dogs; wash them; let them out to do their business; tell them to stop barking; bring them in; and then don’t say another word until at least ten a.m.

That’s when I wake the Hub with his first coffee.  It takes his body a couple of hours to de-creak and he lies quietly until he feels able to get up.  So another two hours of silence for me.

I often sit quietly to pray or think about a poem or post, but I never just sit quietly with nothing to do, as the prompt requires.  That’s a lull too far.

I like it.  I like quiet.  I like time to think, blog, comment, write, mull.

There’s an underused word: mull – to brew, chew, think.  Mulled wine.  Mull of Kintyre.  That was Paul McCartney’s favourite place, a quiet piece of Scotland.  Perhaps that’s where he wrote the much-reviled We All Stand Together (The Frogs’ Chorus).  You won’t be surprised to learn that I am not among the revilers.  I love it.

This prompt made me think of the quote – which I won’t attribute because so many people are said to have said it – that says everything one needs to know about thinking:

Sometimes I just sits and thinks; and sometimes I just sits.

I have digressed a little.  That’s what happens when I take quiet time to think.  That, or doze.

 

WordPress Prompt: See How Long You Can Sit In Silence (1)

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Joke 75

A Baptist fell for the same scam two times in a row.

He is a burned again Christian.

From: http://www.punoftheday.com/pun/3864