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Silence Is Not Only the Absence of Sound  was my response to the first full winter season of Covid 19. I was acutely aware of how silent my world had become, and how solitary. This was not unwelcome, or depressing. I noticed qualities of light and space that had gone unremarked in my previous, busy life; they took on a presence which was companionable, and strangely comforting. The silence, the sunlight, the stillness: calm and reassuring.

But by the winter of 2022, when a new variant of Covid 19 required another round of lockdowns, I was less sanguine about my situation. I found the isolation challenging, and relentless. However, the gift of sunlight offered a faint glimmer of hope that this period of darkness would eventually pass.