Tag: silence
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Silence and Screaming

“There are many days I thirst for my own silencebut walk through the desert screaming instead” ~Andrea Gibson, “Queer Youth Are Five Times More Likely To Die By Suicide,” You Better be LightningI crave stillness and peace and silence,yet my mind is screaming and streaminga busy, noisy, staticy binge,until I let my body take the…
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The Power of Silence

At first there is no silence. There are the thoughts, Vicious in their whisperings, Violent in their clutch, Volatile in their effect, Relentless, merciless. Then there are the feelings… Regret, shame, anger, indignation, Self recrimination, abandonment. Where was the intuition? The self trust? There! Do you see it? It is there. It was always there.…
