Blog 3718 – 01.15.2026

Why All The Noise?

My dad was adverse to noice. One of his favorite cliches was, “It is so loud in here, I can’t hear it thunder.” Ironically he was usually thundering out those words thinking such an example would make his two small boys be quiet. It did not. I am reminded of the lines of a song: “You’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t, so you might as well just do whatever you want. So make lots of noise…”

Here are the complete lyrics in print:

The question I poise in today’s title, Why all the noise? Is one that I was thinking last night as I had a terrible headache. I just wanted a little quiet to rest my aching brain. My wife is a very noisy person. I think she is trying to drown out the voices in her head that torment her at all hours of the day and night. I do not hear those voices. I choose to listen to the still small voice instead.

I first heard today’s song sung by a friend that I met singing karaoke in bars in Lafayette, Indiana while on a work assignment there eleven years ago. Kimmie C., as she called herself, was MC and disc jockey for karaoke night at several bars in and around Lafayette and since she scheduled the songs and ran the program she got to perform several of her favorite songs nightly. 

Another of Kimmie C’s favorite songs, was from Pink’s first greatest hits album and Kimmie asked a question as she began her karaoke version of the song, “Should I say the F word?” Every time I hear that question I am compelled to answer aloud, “F, yes!” (I do not abbreviate the word nor does Pink or Kimmie C. when they perform the song.”

Instead of trying to drown out the voices in our heads that are forever judging us as less than F-ing perfect we should change the channel and hear the still small voice that always says, “My beloved child in whom I am well pleased, you are F-ing perfect to me.” Our higher power, our perfect self does not abbreviate words either, nor can all that noise drown out the still small voice of truth.

Your friend and fellow traveler,

David James White

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