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Apr
6
inaudible clutter
Filed Under Embers, Natural Curl
it comes upon me periodically, and just this morning it settled over me once again: the desire to be quiet. while doing research for the next day’s lesson plan in fifth grade science class (the teacher was ready to retire, so i just took over the class.), i learned that sounds never truly disappear, they just fade out of audible range. my immediate and lasting reaction was that i should choose my words with the greatest care if they are going to exist in perpetuity.
just in the past few days, however, i feel like i’ve spent way too many words. words wasted on, well, just saying too much on trivial, unimportant things. lots of words, saying nothing. there’s no one topic at issue here, there’s nothing i would like to take back, i’m not mad or pouty, not protesting any injustice - it’s just a hunger, a craving, a deep, deep need to be quiet.
from adrienne rich’s poem, cartographies of silence:
Silence can be a plan
rigorously executed
the blueprint to a life
It is a presence
it has a history a form
Do not confuse it
with any kind of absence
–Adrienne Rich
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I have been feeling that same need. Hope you get the quietude you are wanting.
thanks, laney. i am.
Pssst….
Totally agree…
;), enzie.
more synchronicity my dear one. Plus some mutual Adrienne Rich love
yes, acey. yes.
I know that feeling. I plan for quiet time. It helps me stay sane!