Noble Silence

Today was a good day in the Quill Sister’s world, we got to spend the morning and part of the afternoon together.  That’s really how we like to spend our free time, when we can, and it doesn’t happen nearly enough to suit us.

Today, at our writing meeting, we were listening to a fabulous speaker and she brought up “Noble Silence”.

Amylynn’s head whipped around to me and she said “Noble Silence?”

I had to laugh – Noble Silence – these are not two words that would ever be strung together in that order to describe me or Amylynn, maybe Isabella – but just slightly.

That got me thinking, while I was driving my safari jeep through the savannah and passed a lioness  (I saw a girl by the college with a massive head of blond Jersey hair), about silence.  I wondered if I was ever silent or how long I could be silent for . . . 

In the car, I sing  – the first three episodes of the newest season of American Idol awful but anyway, no silence there.  At home I talk constantly to my family – they talk back so I don’t think they mind.  On the rare occasion that I am home alone, I’m really not – the dog is there.  I never leave him alone because he’s like one of my kids.   I talk to him non stop.  I’m not silent at work because people are always in my office wanting something or wanting to talk about their many issues.  Apparently, I’m never silent.

That makes me wonder if I can ever be silent and for how long.  I asked the person who’s known me all of my life (she needs a shorter name already) if she could ever recall me being silent and she said she’d really have to think about it and get back to me.  She called back several hours later and said “No.” and hung up. 

Tomorrow morning I’m going to see for how long I can be silent.  I’m going to start before I get out of bed and before the alarm goes off.  I’ll report back how well it goes!

Silence, please!