"I
ache for shared silence, not the awkward lulls in conversation where we reach
for something, anything, to cover the tension of trying to be with too much of
the other and too little of ourselves, but the moments of fullness that let
each of us unfold and know who we really are. I long for silences with another
where there is nothing to forgive or explain or justify, where we agree to
abandon quickly spoken words for a time so we do not abandon ourselves or each
other, the silences where no one asks me to choose between belonging to myself
and being with the world. And when these silences come, I feel how I am working
my way home though whatever they hold -- terror or tenderness, grief or
celebration -- spiraling ever closer to a sweetness I have ached for all my
life."
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