A couple of years ago I came to a realisation – that ever since I first left Brisbane in the late 1990s, when I was posted to New York as a foreign correspondent for News Corp, I’d been rushing. I was stuck on this express train called my successful life, and the best I could do was catch glimpses of their faces as I rushed past their social media platforms: ‘Facebook, Instagram . . . next stop Twitter.’
Read MoreIn today’s Summer Reading book extract, Brisbane writer (and InQueensland columnist) Christine Jackman, in a quest to rediscover quiet and silence in a noise-filled world, went on two silent retreats. She gives an insight into why.
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