"The Q Wave"

 John Palozzi is a trip. We were sitting around the lunch table after worship and Doug (?) started talking about brainwave frequencies as indicators of meditative state. I laid them out:

  1. beta
  2. alpha
  3. gamma
  4. theta
And then John piped right up: "there's also the Q wave" ... as a way of saying that Quaker silent worship had another brain frequency.

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