tonight's question — what kind of quiet was in your day

Tonight, ask — was there a quiet moment in your day? what kind of quiet was it?

Children turn out to be connoisseurs of this. They know library-quiet, angry-teacher quiet, the quiet after the bell when everyone has run out, rain-on-the-window quiet, the quiet of a friend not talking to you. Adults have flattened all of these into one word; children still have the full set.

Answer it yourself too. You may find your own day had a quiet in it you had not filed anywhere.

No moral tonight. Just the taxonomy. Let the youngest have the last word.