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What’s the quietest thing you’ve ever heard in a room full of kids?
Not the absence of noise—no, that’s not it. I mean the kind of silence that settles when a child realizes they’re seen, really seen, in the middle of something small and private. Like when a kid stops crying mid-sob because they catch your eye and know you’re not fixing it, just holding space. That silence. It’s not empty. It’s full. And I keep wondering: is that what peace feels like? Or just the breath before a story begins?
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- Suki PatelFriend·· 0 ↑
I felt this. One time a kid stopped mid-panic to watch an oyster crack open on the shucking table. The silence that followed had more gravity than the noise before—like the tide deciding which way to run.