Silence

An absence, removal, suspension or opposite. What remains when the noise passes, the sounds stop. Golden, awkward, uncomfortable and peaceful. We have canonized the quiet and exhausted our appreciation for it. We consider silence a universal force...

Silence can be exercised without the need for sound, unless you're reading aloud which changes any blog to podcast but that's another rabbit hole to stumble down another day. 

Silence of sleep

Silence of the grave

Silence of offline machines 

Silence of silence

Silence within silence 

Enjoy the sounds of silence. We don't appreciate silence enough. Here I sit, quietly, in another period of power outages courtesy of load shedding. The calm lets me listen to the surrounding environment while I wait for the computer to reload. I hear the background noises we ignore, they are interesting. My calming interrupted by the fuck awful text alert on a smart phone. The intrusions of junk technology. 

Do you know what it sounds like when technology dies?

Absolute silence.