Silence is Golden

This is the title of my blog because this song runs around inside my head all the time.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n03g8nsaBro

Noise. It is my worst enemy. I never noticed how noisy our world is until I became unable to compete with it.

I love to talk. Anyone who knows me knows I love to talk.  From my childhood I remember many a family dinner with everyone done eating and my plate full because I had talked the entire meal.  My mom's words. "Sherri, stop talking and start eating." Funny, I have had to repeat those same words to my children. :-)
I can't think of one parent/teacher conference where it didn't go something like this, "Sherri's a good student, she just talks too much!" Even in college in nursing school I had a few teachers pull me aside and remind me to stop talking.   I remember hating silence. Seriosuly if a teacher stands up at the front of a room and there is silence I would feel this primitive urge to open my mouth.
Now that silence is my friend. It means I can be still and not have to say anything. It also means that if I choose to open my mouth I can be heard.