on silence
“When you sit in silence long enough, you learn that silence has a motion. It glides over you without shape or form, exactly like water. Its color is silver. And silence has a sound you hear only after hours of wading inside it. The sound is soft, like flute notes rising up, like the sound of glass speaking. Then there comes a point when you must shatter the blindness of its words, the blindness of its light.”
~ Anne Spollen, The Shape of Water
It is easy to lose sight of what silence sounds like, particularly living in a metropolitan area. There is a peacefulness and contentment found only in silence.
I remember .. Though one thing I forget about silence (the silence of the wild) is how it really isn’t silent at all. There is so much sound in it!
This gave me shiver… for it so true! Silence definitely has sound, shape, color, texture. It can be hard to approach descriptively, as it can go beyond the usual words we know to attribute things to. Silence is a bit like water in a love of ways–gently lapping, silver-blue, sometimes the sound of a dolphin squeak, or the hush of snow… Oh, now I what to write about silence. :o) Happy Days, Elizabeth ((HUGS))
Oh, please do! After reading your comment, I want to read more!