“Noise is sound that overloads the central nervous system.”** Overloaded was how I lived. Going mad from the unpredictability, frequency, intensity, and duration of the music of modern life. wuuhhhhhh wuuhh wuhh wuhhhhhhhh Entering menopause like the initiation that it was, the last of the psychic blinders and bumper pads torn away, leaving me raw and wanting for peace within and without.