... written by Arpie Shelton after being in a coma. She wrote: "I could see as if for the very first time ever."
~ Arpie was a long-time Friend of Silence and went on to new Life in May
At the empty nest turning point of middle age, something arose in me, and my journal became full of entries about being alone. I discovered that two entries written 10 years apart were almost identical. I had not yet learned to dignify "alone" with the name of Solitude, but I knew what I wanted, what I needed—as if my life was depriving me of something as essential as the air I breathed.