If the visitors show up more openly, we will need to find our silence in order to talk to them.
But how? This is a very talkative place, this world of ours. Everybody will be jabbering away so loudly we won’t be able to even begin to connect with them which, even if we do manage to start, will be a generations-long effort. We are not ready to do this, but I have a feeling that no baby, dropping out of the womb, ever feels ready.
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