Tag: silent night

Shout Hallelujah

There’s something inherently happy-making about being told you’re happy. I mean, what’s more cheerifying than the news that your fellow citizens—and you among them—have been given a berth on a list of the world’s lightest souls? And so it is with Canadians, who were prominently included recently in a ranking of the world’s happiest people. This is the 24/7 Wall St. list of the Countries With the Happiest People, a...


The Century Club

There are currently some 4,635 people over the age of 100 in this country—and the old folks’ numbers are on the climb. By 2031, the Canadian centenarian count is expected to have jumped to 14,000. From enhanced public social systems to soaring progress in medical research to a lifelong taste for crossword puzzles, the explanations for these long-lived souls are as numerous as they are mysterious. Certainly you...


Silent night, quiet, I can’t hear me.

“Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
” advised the anonymous soul who penned the transcendent Desiderata, “and remember what peace there may be in silence.” Indeed. Certainly it’s hard to stay connected to that home truth, however, inside the furious hubbub of a modern day, but it’s worth the effort. The power of silence is nothing short of extraordinary. From the piercing bleat of an alarm clock through the...