Best of 2009: Moment of Peace

[I'm participating in Gwen Bell's Best of 2009 Blog Challenge, in case you're all like, what's with the theme?]

Quiet moments have been few and far between this year. While I’m normally pretty good at shutting off the various insistent hootings and hollerings of the monkey brain, this year I’ve been hustling pretty much nonstop. So that, even when it’s good and right for me to relax, I haven’t really been able to.

It was different here, though. Here, the noise most often came from human voices (and not very many of them). Nights were truly silent. There was a stillness I recognized from summers during childhood, time spent in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere. I think the stillness that lives in me recognized it, too. That stillness began to sing.