Ringing In the Ears

Ringing in the ears has no cure. It’s called tinnitus and you can pronounce it the way it looks or the way your doctor says it. Today I discovered how to turn the ringing off and that’s to take a phone call from your son who says your daughter died last night. She won the first and second match but lost the last to cancer. An hour later you realize the ringing in your ears has stopped but there’s no silence in its wake. A train of memories chugs by and stops and then chugs on again. You want the ringing in your ears back again. You can live with that. Donal Mahoney