On Silence and Solitude

I can never get enough of either. I feel healed when I have large quantities of both--I feel cleansed and centered and alive again.



Here are quotes from Terry Tempest Williams I posted almost exactly three years ago. Someone linked to it, and I rediscovered them. These are ideas I hope to address in my next memoir.



from Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place :



"It [silence / solitude] is what sustains me and protects me from my mind. It renders me fully present. I am desert. I a...