{"id":999,"date":"2016-02-29T22:41:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T06:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/?p=999"},"modified":"2024-07-02T18:38:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T01:38:00","slug":"brain-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dlkeur.com\/dlkeur-blog\/grimace-and-giggle\/deeply-moving-silent-still\/brain-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“The brain never sleeps.” That’s what one neurologist said to me during a break at an event I attended several years ago. I listened, nodding and smiling when appropriate, but, all the while, I was thinking, “This is news?”<\/p>\n

It’s too obvious to me that my brain never sleeps. But it does go silent on occasion. I’m having one of those ‘occasions’, right now–brain silence.<\/p>\n

It may be because I finally am going to get a verdict on something that’s been hanging over my head since December, something that could\u00a0completely change\u00a0my life. It could be that it’s just a ‘time-out’ after months upon months of often frenetically-paced ‘doing’.<\/p>\n

It could be that I’m fed up, too–fed up with\u00a0fellow-citizens, national and global, who seem bent on self-destruction, a self-destruction that was completely foreseeable as a consequence since I was in high school.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure why my brain has gone silent, but it’s an interesting experience. I’ve had this happen a few times, mostly just before I’ve had huge perception shifts, not when some life-changing event occurred. During those times in the past, I was more robot than human, I think…just doing by rote the day-to-day ‘have-to’s, not-thinking. And I’m good–very good–at not-thinking. But this feels different. Not ominous. Rather, it feels like what is to follow is inevitable…immutable.<\/p>\n

It’s strange.<\/p>\n

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