Is it me, my age, my ears?  I am not sure if it’s not all of them.  Is our society just more edgy, more loud, more rude, more of

everything?  I still think we crave time to process what we have created and quietude to calm ourselves.  I was at, of all things, a flea market.  I haven’t been to one in years.  I was told a certain artist would be there so off I went to meet her.  It was fun and I like all the people milling around selling and buying.  I went to a stand to buy one of the fresh juice drinks.  I had fresh watermelon.  It was great.  There was a very loud band playing and I sort of took it in stride but it was right by the juice merchant who had to listen to it all day.  He said they just get louder …