Today, up in the canyons near Sonoita, I was thinking about silence. It's so quiet up there; relative to that, just sitting in a room with a computer or air conditioning is practically cacophonous. I mean, how often is it quiet enough while one is living in an urban environment to hear oneself blink? In one sense, it was nice for it to be so quiet; in another, I was slightly annoyed at myself for wanting there to be noise at some points. In light of that, I think it would probably good to spend a good deal more time out where it's actually silent.