{"id":11426,"date":"2015-11-23T18:19:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T02:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/?p=11426"},"modified":"2015-11-23T18:19:26","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T02:19:26","slug":"the-sound-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2015\/11\/23\/the-sound-of-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"the sound of silence&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The laryngitis hit a few days ago and doesn&#8217;t seem eager to leave.\u00a0 So now I must be silent and let my voicebox rest and heal.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I am missing calling Ellycat in from the back porch, giggling with the kiddos on skype, and rehearsing my day with Stijn over dinner.\u00a0 Not to mention the difficulty that I found in teaching my three-hour seminar and the work meetings that I&#8217;ve had to put on hold until I can vocalize.<\/p>\n<p>Of course it&#8217;s a temporary thing and I expect to wake up in a day or two and be able to talk comfortably again. But in the meantime it feels awfully lively with all these thoughts knocking around in my head that I can&#8217;t share with anyone around me.\u00a0 But that does seem to be the gift of getting older, that there are so many thoughts and associations and memories and wonderings.\u00a0 I can easily fill an hour by sitting in the garden enjoying the scent of the basil plants, and rehearsing in my mind my favorite basil recipes and basil foods, as well as the most humble and the most exquisite caprese salads that I&#8217;ve ever tasted.\u00a0 And the pretty soon the sun is setting and the hour is past and now I&#8217;ve moved on to the rosemary&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/4cV31K\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/2162\/2103899467_44d23a307a.jpg\" alt=\"basil\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The laryngitis hit a few days ago and doesn&#8217;t seem eager to leave.\u00a0 So now I must be silent and let my voicebox rest and heal. In the meantime, I am missing calling Ellycat in from the back porch, giggling with the kiddos on skype, and rehearsing my day with Stijn over dinner.\u00a0 Not to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-thoughts","category-garden"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>the sound of silence... - PilgrimSteps<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"losing my voice\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2015\/11\/23\/the-sound-of-silence\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"the sound of silence... - 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