Sound of Silence

Yesterday Clint and I were discussing silence. A little later in the day I was reading an essay in a local publication on the topic of silence.  This essay was written by Stephanie Hunt about silence and her time spent in silence at the Mepkin Abbey.  I liked a quote from her essay:




   I am astonished at how amplified silence can be.




Later this morning,  a Facebook friend, Deborah, had shared  how touched she was by hearing Paul Simon playing and singing, The Sound of Silence, at a Ground Zero memorial for 9/11.  I had not heard the tribute and after I heard it, I decided to share it on here: