Hal Walker

Scrolling displaces observation, shuts out occasions for self-generated thought, silences out-of-the-blue invitations. Checking the phone reroutes the discomfort of blankness and emptiness. It stoppers authentic—often anxious—waiting. And, even more disturbing, scrolling narrows the field of my curiosity. I take what I find there; I don’t make... See more

At the same time, the skills I have had to develop, and the ways I have had to transform, in order to survive the past four years have made me a wiser, kinder person. I have greater capacity and compassion. I am less dissociated, I seem to feel everything more deeply and vividly. I feel more connected to what is happening to the earth in this... See more

Sometimes, I picture myself walking in a whole field of Ohio wildflowers and I think about what I've been missing my whole life.

so, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me for i, too, am fluent in silence. —R. Arnold

Within Man Is The Soul Of The Whole; The Wise Silence; The Universal Beauty