Between Silence and Song (🖐🏼 hand holder)
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You can encounter other moments between silence and song by asking loved ones to make you a recording of an animal sleeping; start by messaging a bundle of nature documentary lovers for a minute of audio - as you attempt you guess what animal sleeps between your ears, notice the vitality of silence there (note the spaces between each breath by stating softly in your head i'm here now). 🐿️
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Would you tell me a story?
The Space Between Thoughts
The Resistance
You've probably seen it—that four-panel comic making rounds online. "Why do you listen to content all the time?" one figure asks. "I can't be alone with my thoughts," comes the reply. Then the revelation: "You mean I don't have to live like this?"
Something in us recognizes that moment. The body rejecting a part of itself, the way it might push out a splinter. We fill our ears with podcasts, music, audiobooks—anything to avoid the silence where we might encounter ourselves.
What Waits in Stillness
Imagine, though: What if you could cherish moments alone with your thoughts? What might that look like?
Not meditation retreats or enlightenment practices—just ordinary presence. Turning pages of a.m. brown's Grievers by a window overlooking the river. Writing small observations in a notebook. A bowl of lentils, corn, beans, and tomato warming your lap. Your water jar catching afternoon light. Three-quarters full.
These anchors to physical reality need no justification. They exist as constellation points of presence, speaking earth's cycles through the humble act of digestion, each bubble a reminder of connection.
The Softening
Notice how words bloom across landscapes of thought, creating rings of meaning that don't confine or contain—they soften. Language ferments like good food, making each encounter with our inner world more digestible, a milky way of context surrounding every thought.
Our consciousness has such remarkable geography—valleys and curls, descents and chasms. Even in seemingly barren terrain, every swallow becomes seed, every root eventually splitting concrete. Identity calves like glaciers, breaking into new canyons of expression.
When thoughts transform from pursuers to companions, silence itself becomes a fountain reflecting our true nature—not as proof of anything, but as celebration of our fluid becoming.
The Invitation
The space between thoughts isn't empty—it's where we find each other. Not as intrusion but invitation. We're not captured by likeness but with it, cycles embracing what they always were: soft clay, landscape, a sustained note the moment hangs upon.
You might find yourself becoming shelter; resting there, you become beloved. The river flows past while you simply tend to being here. There's something miraculous in this—to recognize thoughts as something you might choose to be alone with. Not consuming them or drowning in them, but gently, impossibly orbiting in that mundane miracle of weathering rotation.
The Recognition
Something shifts when you settle into this presence. You become river—become wood grain catching sunbeam lettering. Language transforms from tool to orchestra, the ensemble of momentary connections rippling across expression's surface.
Each stone, each ripple eventually finds its way to complete recognition, thermal nestling into whatever grammar the river finds. Time leans against itself, sculpting hands and care. Rivers change course, oceans empty, land slips into basin as surely as you rest in this moment—as real as your fingers, your breath shaped into attention instead of words.
The Constellation
This relationship with yourself—how delicate, how eternal. Not time in tension but in witnessing, in shared becoming. An affection that arranges ordinary moments into constellations so inscrutable they must be lived to cherish, lines so invisible they must be felt as pressure waves—there, subtly, tenderhearted there.
Each thought becomes a star held—cradles of silent burning, roars of white water becoming their own rivers so completely that worlds form, collide, and make moons, axes, seasons.
In this season, as barren spaces open into brief breaths of hospitality—not expected or deserved but acknowledged—we keep faith with what matters beyond all that light reveals.
When you finally speak from this place, something breaks free. Not just reflection but conductance, a generative capacity that brings you back simply to wonder, to stand before the perfectly mundane miracle of your own consciousness—no longer something to flee, but a landscape worth inhabiting.
What happens when you stop running from your thoughts and instead become the space they move through? Perhaps not enlightenment, but something equally profound—presence itself, the gift hiding in plain sight all along.