My father was a writer. He wrote all of his life, inflicting upon many of us his novels, plays, articles, essays, and self-help books. Some were marvelous; some merely well-intentioned. But of all the things he wrote, his journal is his legacy: by turns wise and bewildering, it neared 1,100 type-written pages when he died in 2010. Although perused many times, this is the first time it will be read - cover to cover, page after page.
Silence is real and so we cannot fill it with just sound or noise or even voices. Sometimes it has to be listened to, even if the thought of what it might say is frightening enough to drive us back to mere sound.
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