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...schedule, driving up and down the streets looking for some sign of life. I realize what a nonstop blast of movement, noise, conflict, talking, laughing, yelling, cell-phoning, honking and jackhammering I am subjected to during every single second of my current urban existence. I find myself on a quiet street, in a quiet town in a quiet part of the country during a quiet time of year. I stop the car in the middle of a main street, just to see if anything will happen. Sixty seconds - nothing. Two minutes - nothing. Five minutes - nothing. Finally, after...
...Option 1: Quit. The old standby. Tried. True. Timeless. Its elegance and simplicity have always made it attractive, and I can't help thinking that it might be the best choice for me right now (I personally have quit many times, and its short-term benefits are quiet compelling). There is the small problem of sneaking past the course officials without being seen, of plowing two or three miles through deep snow and trackless wilderness to avoid the grandstand, the starting gate, the shooting range and all the other skiers. That'd be tricky, but it's doable. Then just...
...QUIET West Yellowstone is a slow town this time of year. It has big, wide streets, plenty of places to park, lots of hotels and gas stations, but no actual people, cars, dogs or anything else visibly moving...
...sense is there are some things on which you definitely should speak out and other things where it would be more effective to use discussion in a quiet way,” Rudenstine explains...
...There were little pockets of trouble around the city; there were a few broken windows, a couple of overturned trash cans. But generally things were quiet...