Quiet walking, not bad

How to do you enjoy the quiet? My dad would enjoy it fishing

I was listening to Bill Pierce's Nightsounds, the topic was Quiet Zone. Bill's program is a thoughtful program that is really great to listen to at the end of the day. Lean back and listen and before you know it you will ready to sleep. Bill Pierce is with the Lord now, but his program and topics are timeless. You can experience Nightsounds on the web at http://www.nightsoundsradio.org/ Visit it and you may put his sites in your favorites like I have and visit Nightsounds any time you want or need to.
Enjoying the quiet in your walks, listening to the wind moving through the leaves, bird and animal sounds and taking it a step further and listen to the silence. On my walk trail their are people walking so you will hear them talking. Barb and I make it an effort to walk in quiet, but sometimes one or both just have to talk. But we have found times of quiet are good. In the car we do alot of our talking. We have walked in the mountains, along the oceans, lakes, trails where you have longer periods without seeing another person. We have taken two to four hour walks and at times have seen no one on the trail. For years we have walked the beaches of Western Florida and you fall in love with the wind and waves lapping close by. There are plenty of walkers with you but the waves insulate the noise.
I notice people with  their headphones listening to their music or speakers and in a way they miss the silence that comes on the trails or beaches. We are surrounded by all kinds of noise by choice or not, we may not enjoy quiet, but I would encourage you to learn to experience the quiet. Right now as I right it is quiet in my house. All I hear are my thoughts as I write this blog. I do have ringing in the ear, (tinnitus) but it is so much better than 5 years ago when my ears sounded like crickets. Aerobic walking opened the blood flow to my ears and the ringing improved. Aerobic walking and running is what the specialist recommended and it worked. It took  three months but improved it did.
My dad worked in a noisy factory and he loved to go fishing by himself to enjoy the silence. When he told me that it sort of stuck in my mind we enjoyed the same thing.
Couples walk and talk together and who am I to stop that from happening, but try it a couple of times where part of your walk is silent. Share later what each of you heard or liked about the quiet walk.
Have you noticed in your walks how green things are? Flowers are in bloom and the animal kingdom is very active. Later this summer walk by a cornfield and you can hear it grow. I am actually going to do that again just to see if it is so. Keep walking!