Essay 01
What Silence Sounds Like at the Top of the World
“I didn't know how much background noise the world contained until I stood somewhere there was none.”
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In the Absence Of
Sometimes we cannot recognize the noise in our lives until we experience its absence. The absence itself is not necessarily the subject. What the absence reveals is.
A reflective essay series about what becomes visible when something we have always assumed was necessary disappears. Through silence, distance, solitude, constraint, absence and return, the series explores what remains when the background noise of ordinary life falls away.
Essays by Jennae Michelle Tropea, RN
In the Absence Of
An essay series by Jennae Michelle Tropea, RN
Additional essays will appear here as they are published.