Funny how just in the span of one day someone mentions the quiet before the storm (she is an Israeli who didn’t quite know if she got the expression right) as well as a friend sending a Holiday DJ mix reminiscent of ‘Quiet  Storm’ – the sounds of the 70s late night radio format that features – yes you guessed it, slow jams.

The best thing about the two references was that the Israeli was using the idiom as a word of caution to the end of civilization as we know it (technological warfare was the root cause I believe).  But in the same breadth, listening to the serene jams (sipping eggnog), everything seemed to be just right, in the right place, at the right pace – exactly as it does sometimes.