I received a birthday card not too long ago that had a drawing of a couple on it, sitting together, and the man was handing the woman a flower. And on the front of the card it said,” Sometimes words are not enough.” The card was given to me by a cousin who is very […]
Birthday Card, silence, Silent
Sometimes we can become anxious when we feel like somebody is expecting a response from us about something, and we don’t have anything to say, at least not in that moment. I’m reminded of the great line from Meg Ryan in “Joe Versus the Volcano” at times like that, where she says, “I have no […]
no response, nothing to say, silence
In his 1958 short story called “Murke’s Collected Silences”, the German author, Heinrich Boll, writes about a sound engineer named Murke who works in a recording studio. His job is to record talks and speeches by famous people, and as part of that job he has to edit out the pauses that they take during […]
recording studio, silence, silences