The Sound of Nothing
I turned off every notification for a week. What I heard first was not peace. Silence, it turns out, is not the absence of noise. It is the arrival of everything the noise was covering.
A page for the late hour
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I keep skulls on my desk so that small things stay small. This is my corner of the internet, built the way personal pages used to be: slow, strange, a little loud, and entirely mine.
I write about silence, mortality, and the quiet work of waking up. Nothing here is for sale and nothing here is trying to hold your attention. If you leave feeling a little more awake, it worked.
People who answer their phone and then put it down. Friends who tell the truth. Anyone who has ever sat in a quiet room and not looked away.
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I turned off every notification for a week. What I heard first was not peace. Silence, it turns out, is not the absence of noise. It is the arrival of everything the noise was covering.
You are building a self out of opinions. Be careful what you cement. Most of what you are certain of will not outlive your thirties.
By noon I had seen four hundred faces I will never meet, two catastrophes I cannot affect, and nine things I was told I needed.
Visitors assume the skulls mean I am morbid. The truth runs the other way. Memento mori is not a threat. It is an invitation to spend yourself on purpose.
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