Another note on whales and silence from Tim Severin
I blogged this paragraph from The Brendan Voyage – but here is something rather different from In Search of Moby Dick: “Not everything matched the old whaling lore. I was startled…
Tag: the quest for silence
From “The Monks of Tibhirine: Faith, Love and Terror in Algeria” John W Kiser
I also began to better understand why my exposure to the Trappist culture had a certain resonance for me. Simplicity is one reason. Doing less, not more, and doing those…
Silence – A Fragment. Nthposition, March 2013
For some years now, I have been contemplating a philosophy of silence. Is that my most pretentious sentence yet? Possibly. Silence is fascinating. When we are most at ease with…
Séamus Sweeney 