I am aware that, in order to restore, and or expand the integrity of my marriage, it is MY responsibility to be silent, take myself to a neutral place inwardly, and let him speak, without my interrupting him or adding my version of the story.
Sometimes I'd find myself taking respite beside a stage void of dancers, a visual equivalent to Cage's silent work, finding myself looking at the clear patch of floor as if it might tell me something.
I stayed silent, not trusting myself to reply politely.
"The strange thing is, I don't think myself silent.
In later years, Wilson would stand outside Bearden's house on Canal Street, in New York, "in silent homage, daring myself to knock".
They hugged me goodbye, clinging a little too long, and as I rode the metro to my office, I said a kind of silent prayer to myself that they would get through the day without falling apart.
I kept silent, and to myself.
It was then that I made a silent pact with myself never to become like him.
They told me to move away, to stay silent to protect myself, and to invest in more locks.
As you mentioned, my eldest brother was killed in 2007, and I had to keep myself silent to my family in order to not keep them worried about losing another son.
