silence-started

Updated: June 19, 2025

Those few solemn hours in which I heard only the wagon's rumble and the sweet calls of the whip-poor-will-waves of music on a sea of silence-started me in a way of thought which has led me high and low these many years and still invites me. The day was near its end when we got to the first big clearing.

Irving Bacheller - Eben Holden, a tale of the north country