I don’t think I really drove home the point in yesterday’s post about the silence in our newly plowed fields the other night. After winding down an al fresco dinner at about 2:30 in the morning, I wandered to the corner of the property shown in the photo and stood for ten minutes without hearing anything.

Nothing. Nada. Nix.

Try to imagine ten minutes of not just quiet but silence – absolute silence – in today’s world. Just the ringing in your ears. Alone with yourself under an enormous blanket of darkness punctuated by beautiful pinpricks of light it is hard to imagine how one could not help but find himself drawn closer to nature and God as St. Francis was.

It is a mighty powerful experience.

Ci vediamo!
Bill and Suzy