You and I may be in the category of people who love silence, solitude, and simplicity, but we are not hermits. We have a TV, a computer, and a cell phone.! Very likely you are challenged, as I am, with how to manage and maneuver the 1/6 hearings. Each of us is somewhere on the continuum, from not watching at all, to never turning off the TV (which gives NO silence, nor solitude, or simplicity). I’ve been listening to the live hearings and later on watching some of the commentary.
And then, click, off goes the TV. Settling down from all the noise, companionship, and complication, however, takes time and commitment. Talking a walk, something I do ever day, always sends me into a more peaceful space.
And then there is reading. Currently I am enthralled with Franco Zeffirelli’s autobiography. I am reading it slowly, savoring everything he says about Florence, where he was brought up, and about all the many operas he produced. And then I listen to an opera from my Metropolitan Opera On-Demand Subscription. Currently it’s the 1987 performance of Turandot, produced, of course, by Zeffirelli.
And then, click, off goes the TV. Settling down from all the noise, companionship, and complication, however, takes time and commitment. Talking a walk, something I do ever day, always sends me into a more peaceful space.
And then there is reading. Currently I am enthralled with Franco Zeffirelli’s autobiography. I am reading it slowly, savoring everything he says about Florence, where he was brought up, and about all the many operas he produced. And then I listen to an opera from my Metropolitan Opera On-Demand Subscription. Currently it’s the 1987 performance of Turandot, produced, of course, by Zeffirelli.