Sanguine Tenacious Tidings

Silence

In your entry today, write about silence. Consider silence in both your personal life and in your writing. What messages can be conveyed through silence? Is there power in a person being silent? When is it appropriate to be silent and when is it not?

SILENCE

I was digging a ditch yesterday and this morning along one side of our woodshed. It will drain storm water away from the shed. So, if I did not write at all silence would be my statement for the day. Truthfully, I'm happy I can still type. Digging ditches is not part of my normal daily duties. It's one of the draw backs of a virtual meeting place. The silence makes you wonder where the person is who should be communicating.

Deliberate silence of one party or another in an other wise close relationship is sometimes used to intimidate or hurt mentally. Silence can be used as a power then.

Some times silence is just an avoidance of a situation that may get out of hand in any other way.

I think it is appropriate to be silent if the other party is deliberately misunderstanding a statement of situation. Silence can be a way of holding a line.

At this point I would not want to confuse silence with a person withdrawing from a given situation bodily in a deliberate manner in order to save themselves from intimidation.

So, an inappropriate silence example would be a teen who would not answer a parent who was trying to communicate some life lesson.

O.K. I'm off to rest up for tomorrow's fall work load. I'm going to attempt some changes to the dog run that is attached to the house. My dog is happy when I work outside because he gets to go along and check out the wildlife close to the house. If it rains I get a day to read or write.

Happy writing, stay safe.