Stillness

Living as I do near LAX, the hiatus in international flights is noticible - and, I'm sorry to say (because I do feel awful for those people stuck in airports and foreign cities), beautiful. Indeed, the last time there was this kind of silence was the few days after 9-11 when they shut down air traffic altogether. It reminds me a little of the feeling I sometimes get in the evenings, coming out of the bungalow offices at the college, which used to be dorms back when the place was built in the ...