silence of content, silence of medium
Hush. Listen to what you do not hear. Caws, rumbles, chatter, and creaks. Ambience in the labour of life, whose absence is a kind of silence that fills seashells with the ocean.
Overwhelmed tracks surround us. In the hum of heater grates. Air flow that vibrates. Red tinnitus. This noisy silence, the deaf do not hear. Usually, apparently, neither do I.
Roger Kenyon was North America’s first lay canon lawyer and associate director at the Archdiocese of Seattle. He was involved in tech (author of Macintosh Introductory Programming, Mainstay) before teaching (author of ThinkLink: a learner-active program, Riverwood). Roger lives near Toronto and offers free critical thinking and character development courses online.
“When not writing, I’m riding—eBike, motorbike, and a mow cart that catches air down the hills. One day I’ll have Goldies again.”
