Silence needs you...

By Vichara

Silence needs you as much as you need silence. The cacophony has its friends and it’s place but our friend silence needs to be part of our frenetic lifestyle as well. Silence is needed as a place where we can weigh out the options presented to us, focus the signal of optimism, gratitude and compassion. Use the silence’s calming presence to energize the battery of forgiveness for oneself and for others. With silence all can be measured, weighed, evaluated and resolved with efficiency.

sternutation • \ster-nyuh-TAY-shun\ • noun
: the act, fact, or noise of sneezing

Example Sentence:
Julie knew that she had put on too much perfume when she entered the car and immediately heard a chorus of sternutation from the passengers.

Did you know?
"Sternutation" comes from Latin and is a descendant of the verb "sternuere," meaning "to sneeze." One of the earliest known English uses occurred in a 16th-century edition of a book on midwifery, in a passage about infants suffering from frequent "sternutation and sneesynge." The term has long been used in serious medical contexts, but also on occasion for humorous effect. In 1850, for example, author Grace Greenwood observed that U.S. senators from opposing political parties would often come together to share snuff: "And all three forget their sectional differences in a delightful concert of sternutation. No business is too grave, no speaker too eloquent, to be 'sneezed at.'"