Author: clfuu

Silence invites our bodies into stillness. Stillness invites us to look inward and to listen to the still, small, voice within us.

What do you hear in your moments of stillness?

So much of the life that surrounds us is silent, and yet our silent siblings communicate with us and each other. Trees communicate with one another in ways that humans cannot understand.

How are you connected to the silent life around you?

During the first decade of the HIV/AIDS pandemic silence on the part of government and society served to devalue the lives of those who were dying. Silence perpetuated and magnified the harm done by the virus. ACT-UP, among other groups, refused to be complicit in this silence.

When have you needed to speak up?

The caterpillar dissolves its entire physical form inside the chrysalis in order to transform into what it is meant to be.

What are you transforming in yourself?

Today is the first Sunday of the Christian season of Advent, the season of waiting for the birth of Jesus–for the birth of new possibility into the world.

What possibilities are you waiting for?