The Happiness of Off

Today was the first day in a couple of weeks that I was able to shut off.  It was a summer evening, wet from a passing thunder storm.  The light lingered in the night sky over Lake Ontario.  A pleasing cup of tea and the second cupcake.

In just three hours, I felt the beginnings of being able to "hear," again.

I have asked so many questions across the past two years of so many different people on whether they view the electronics explosion as positive.  Only two other women - both pianists - said that they routinely "shut it all off" so that they can hear, Elizabeth Roe and Olga Kern.

So my today happiness is a quiet one.  It is the place of poets and pianists, of dreamers, of lovers.  Isn't it special to think that it didn't cost a thing to find this much happiness?  ~  Paloma