About once a year or so, I begin to crave quiet. I feel an impulse to turn off whatever it is that I've been watching on DVD or netflix lately, to quiet the stereo, and just be.
Usually when that happens I still find space to write.
But this week? This week I'm feeling that craving creep up on me, and I'm ever so aware of the impending arrival of another full semester (rumored to be the most intense in my program). I'm ever so aware that my short summer break is waning, and that I need to honor the craving for quiet.
I'm aware that I need to be present to friends (both long distance and nearby). That I need to take time to read, and journal, to pray and process, to create and simply to be. That there are parts of my life that need careful attention, that there is cleaning and organizing that I want to accomplish before heading back to school.
And because I'm craving quiet, and aware of the waning of summer, this space is going to be quieter. None of the "regularly scheduled programming" for the next week or so. I'll probably pop in occasionally, and I'll be here with the Daily 5, but that's it. Just the things that can't help but spurt out of me, and my usual daily practice of thanksgiving.
I'm off to honor the quiet in my life for a while, and I'm pretty sure I'll return with more to say than I've had in quite a while.
