Monet Speaks
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Don't Fear the Pause
David Brooks offers some terrific advice for making conversations count in Nine Nonobvious Ways to have Deeper Conversations [https://nyti.ms/3m0J77n]. His counsel not to fear the pause > Most of us stop listening to a comment about halfway through so we can be ready with a response. In…
Music
> “Music opens a path into the realm of silence.” How Bach will save your soul – lovely read on the power of music from a forgotten German philosopher: https://t.co/4JGyiKjHRm — Explore (@Explorer) December 5, 2018 [https://twitter.com/Explorer/status/1070383302052405249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…
Isolated
> This insane anti-distraction helmet from 1925 would fit into any modern open office https://t.co/6izMgBj0oH pic.twitter.com/vpBCjZPeL7 [https://t.co/vpBCjZPeL7] — Co.Exist (@FastCoExist) April 4, 2016 [https://twitter.com/FastCoExist/status/716869186555875328] The Fast Company article hints that inventor Hugo Gernsback was merely ahead…
Recognize the Silence
> "Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself so you can hear it in others." ~Marian Wright Edelman — Zen Essentials (@ZenEssentials) March 26, 2015 [https://twitter.com/ZenEssentials/status/581042186164240385]…
Emerson/Senge
Just because I've added a few posts about silence lately, here's something I wrote on another blog in 2010— At Twitter, Michelle James points the way to Emerson RT @swichman: "Real action is in silent moments." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Tue Jul 06 02:27:…
Emerson on Hospitality
I found a recent entry celebrating silence [https://mikeschultz.ghost.io/isolation-of-another-sort/] yesterday, and it reminded me of this. > " Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet." Ralph Waldo Emerson — Frederic Brussat (@FredericBrussat) January 14, 2014 [https://twitter.com/FredericBrussat/statuses/423061672941473792]…
Isolation of another sort
> Good morning! The night before Christmas, and 2 humans are out in the open vacuum of space. http://t.co/mYPD7IjtCU pic.twitter.com/7KZEiUPHFB [http://t.co/7KZEiUPHFB] — Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) December 24, 2013 [https://twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/statuses/415454346898182144] --- Frederic Brussat has suggested another…