“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world
so, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me for i, too, am fluent in silence. —R. Arnold
Scrolling displaces observation, shuts out occasions for self-generated thought, silences out-of-the-blue invitations. Checking the phone reroutes the
I've reached the stage where I don't give a shit about what anyone thinks about me, but now I want them to care that I've reached that stage.
Sometimes, I picture myself walking in a whole field of Ohio wildflowers and I think about what I've been missing my whole life.
