You are good, too, for when I feel silent

Richard Armitage as John Proctor in The Crucible, promotional poster.

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The paradox of needing to speak and having to keep my own counsel, it repeats itself in so many arenas of my life. I am quite voluble, it seems, depending on the context. Sometimes I need a model for silence. John Proctor is not that model, he works hard but he stands up for himself, he defends his situation, he stands, he speaks. But with head bowed, humble, there’s a stillness. Weariness, humility, perhaps. He can teach me, too, to guard my silence, to let it overcome me, to let it, in the end, to put me to sleep.

~ by Servetus on August 28, 2014.