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Tripping Over Joy

Make a list of the times when your day is quiet–truly quiet. Is there even one? I read recently that an acoustic ecologist named Gordon Hempton has spent the last 30-odd years compiling what he calls “The List of the Last Great Quiet Places.” It consists of places with at least 15 minutes of uninterrupted quiet during daylight hours. In the whole of the United States, there were only 12.