Marketplace

There is a kind of quiet that does not come from absence. I learned this recently, and it changed the shape of how I move through the world. It came through a conversation with someone named Orunos - a person I have known a long time, who lives at a distance from me, and with whom I exchange small messages the way others might exchange letters across a long gap of land. We do not speak often, but when we do, I have learned to trust that whatever I send will not be wasted.