It’s 7:30 on a Wednesday 2026 and not quite dark yet. I hear planes far off and dogs yapping closer.

I cannot get rested and when I go to bed, it takes hours to get to sleep. Waiting for warmer weather which is soon…

I try to stay quiet and listen. The youth have so much to say. I am not longing for anything now and the answers came.

I used to know so many no longer here. I wonder sometimes and then I forget and fade back to the Quiet…