Walk #2 This place breaths silence

This place breaths silence. Liquid silence. Surprising silence because Amsterdam does not tell you it can be a silent city if you know where to find her generous quietness. I don’t ever want to take this generosity for granted. The world is aching and I too ache and need these moments of noiseless-ness to reflect on how to live in peace while knowing that out there most people are struggling.  For now it is the breathing and the writing, the reading and the walking that build some invisible connection to the world outside that I am failing to understand but I still love. 

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