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Meghan O’Rourke has written an exquisite piece about the curative powers of silence in “Lessons in Stillness From One of the Quietest Places on Earth.”
Dealing with a new baby, a long illness, and a sick father left O’Rourke “exhausted, unwell and snappish.” So at her husband’s urging she flew to Seattle alone and wandered into the Hoh Rain Forest, “one of the quietest places in the U.S.” And what follows is her poetic ode to that forest, her appreciation of its “cathedral stillness,” and her discovery of that which she was searching for: “a willful silence.”
Here’s a little taste of what it’s like to escape city noise and enter the silent world Ms. O’Rourke experienced:
O’Rourke’s story is in T Magazine’s November 12th Travel issue, which features the Hoh Rain Forest.
