They say the Inuit people have more than a thousand different words for snow*. I wonder if there is a language that has many different word for silence?
There is the peaceful silence of the wee hours of the morning, when all the world is asleep, and the dark night sky is soothing in its company
There is the heart-breaking silence of an un-ringing phone when your loved one is far away, and you are missing them.
There is the noisy silence of a forest far away from human development.
There is the stony silence of a person beside you who is hurt or angry.
Sometimes what you think is one kind of silence might actually be another one.
The Wolf and I had a little tiff. The kind of little tiff that is normal in a relationship, the kind that normally blow over, given a bit of time. The kind that, when you are on opposite sides of the world from each other, can eat at you,if you let your imagination run.
The tiff might be resolved (eg, forgotten about by him) but I have no way of knowing that, since I haven't heard from him. I was stressing about that, but then I heard, from a friend's hubs who is home on HTLA, that things are crazy busy over there (worse than normal), between people home on leave and other things that are going on. Plus, CBC announced another casualty - and 1st PPCLI to boot (the Wolf's old reg.)- so there would have been a comms shut down until all the proper folks were notified. There are many reasons that the Wolf might not have been in contact, and none of them have the slightest bit to do with me. I really need to get better at remembering that.
I am not sure if it is a good thing or a bad thing that the fact there might be a comms shut down never entered my head as a reason he might be silent. I had thought that maybe the comms were down for tech reasons, but the possibility of a casualty didn't even occur to me.
May all your silences in the days to come be the peaceful kind.
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* WIkipedia says the snow thing is an urban legend. Meh. Whether it is or isn't, it makes good copy.
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