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Two ways to experience silence: one deadly, one sustaining

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Whitney McKnight
Jun 19, 2020
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vol. 2 issue 32

Greetings,

There are two distinct ways to experience silence. I realized that unexpectedly today while sitting on the roof of my apartment building. I had gone there to soak up some quiet solace in the sunshine, before the storms on the horizon arrived. Instead, I was harassed by an odd, incessant trio of high-pitched beeps coming from so…

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