Although today's whimsy is not necessarily an account, it is a realization. As I have learned in my encounter with writing and contemplating life every day, realizations are sometimes small pathways leading to new branches and new whimsies. Driving to work today I realized how unwhimsical silence is to me. In the car but also in everyday life=silence is the opposite of whimsical. It could be described as undesirable but even more so almost frightening. Deafening. All-consuming darkness. 

     This realization is not to be depressing but enlightening. Because I do think there is whimsy found in silence but I have yet to understand how to tap into it or realize it or even find it. Most of my life I have always needed mind-settling distractions which would explain my over-studying in high school and college, practicing hours and hours and even perseverating over small projects. I cannot and do not know how to meet the beautifully silent soul of whimy. Or perhaps it isn't really silence that leads to a whimsical life. Quietness and Silence are not necessarily synonymous. 

     I do not think whimsy is lazy, but I do think it requires contemplation through quietness, uninterrupted thinking and of course a sense of stillness in taking in the moments around us without the distractions. The past few weeks I have been driving my car without music, and I just cannot do it any longer. And then I came to another realization that turning off the music completely is not what we are to do either. For without life's music there is no song. Without music, life is teeming with insecurities and anxieties and "what if's" and the list continues. Endless. Amost just as deafening as all-consuming noise.

     So for the first time today, I put the radio to my favorite channel and played it on the softest volume possible. I think sometimes we are asked to lower the music and to face whimsical silence as aloneness with Him rather than loneliness. Whimsical is not all or nothing but compromise. And there is never truly silence. If you are concentrated on multiplying love, you will find music among the quietness.