Pizzey's Perch

“Silence is the sleep that nour­ish­es wis­dom.” The chances of enjoy­ing that 16^th cen­tu­ry insight from philoso­pher Fran­cis Bacon are slim to nil in today’s world. But a lit­tle more peace and qui­et would go some way to starv­ing the igno­rance with which soci­ety is  pro­gres­sive­ly bloating.
Not only is there too much noise of every kind, many peo­ple seem to find it not just tol­er­a­ble, but nec­es­sary.… Read the rest