At 2:09 PM -0500 2/26/00, Diane Hodges wrote:
>silence means different things for different people: for me, it is what
>keeps gays and queers
>trapped outside, beaten up, it is what enables incest and hate crimes,
>what permits the adults of the world to fondle and molest young shildren
>with the threat "don't tell" -
>ti think silence is complicated, more than a response it is a punishment,
>often connected to shame, humiliation, fear, and damaged feelings.
to kathie's response:
>>so, i come back to silence
>>as a response
>>as a kind of complicity (but, oh! there are dangerous echoes there!)
of Tatiana translation:
>>>"We don't have the power to hear
>>> Our words echoing in other minds and souls, --
Silence too can be a meditation -- not an escape from the world, but a thoughtful consideration of it.
A watching.
A way to make space for others.
A way to make oneself differently than others.
A determination.
And yet all the while, still a complicity.
Bill Barowy, Associate Professor
Lesley College, 29 Everett Street, Cambridge, MA 02138-2790
Phone: 617-349-8168 / Fax: 617-349-8169
http://www.lesley.edu/faculty/wbarowy/Barowy.html
_______________________
"One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself
and watch yourself softly become the author of something beautiful."
[Norman Maclean in "A river runs through it."]
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