Brothers and Sisters at Daily Kos - Silence
Welcome to Brothers and Sisters, the weekly meet-up for prayer* and community at Daily Kos. We put an asterisk on pray* to acknowledge that not everyone uses conventional religious language, but may want to share joys and concerns, or simply take solace in a meditative atmosphere. Anyone who comes in the spirit of mutual respect, warmth and healing, is welcome.
Silence is more than absence of speech. It can be an essential part of emptying oneself to make room for someone or something else.
Ocne in a class on the symphony, the late William Heartt Reese asked a group of us at Haverford College what the motif was of the Beethoven Fifth Symphony. One young man said "dit-dit-dit-DAH" almost as if doing the Morse code for the letter V. Reese told him he was wrong, to look at the score, that the motif was "rest-dit-dit-dit-DAH." That rest was an essential part of that structure.
Sometimes it is surprising or sudden silences. Beethoven is famous for them.
Sometimes it is that we need to remind ourselves of the need