In lieu of an outpatient psychiatric program, I went on a silent, Buddhist retreat last month. Not able/willing to take any time off work, I squeezed it into a weekend. The silence was a relief. I never really want to talk to people, certainly not people I don’t know, so it was a rare and unfamiliar pleasure to sit at meals and say nothing to my tablema…
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