Silence

Camping

Round Hiker and Little Runner took off this morning to go camping in Canyonlands.  The silence is deafening, but in  a good way.  Before I moved in with Round Hiker (11 years ago!) I had many silent evenings just reading or doing something that coincidentally did not have sound accompaniment.  I occasionally feel like a bad mother because I don't shepard Little Runner through the musical world very much.  His favorite song so far is Christina Aguilera's Candyman.  I forget sometimes how equally important being quiet is.  Too bad LR's 4 year old nature makes silence the enemy.  I feel so much more peaceful when I have some good stretches of silence in my day.