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# Silence
- URL: https://www.jamesreeves.co/silence/
- Published: 2020-01-04T12:41:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-15T03:50:53.000Z
- Author: James A. Reeves
- Tags: Notebook

Alone on an island and the silence is like walking into a wall. These short winter days feel like a permanent sunset, the way the sun rolls along the horizon for a few hours before returning beneath the earth, as if it’s too exhausted to go any higher. I sympathize. Today I came across the phrase “[algo-seance scene](https://www.wired.co.uk/article/astrology-apps-technology?ref=jamesreeves.co)” and realized I’m losing track of not only the future but the present.

We took a bus to the neighboring island to buy some coffee and eggs and salmiakki. Then we sat in a gas station diner waiting for the last bus back to our flat by the sea. An ancient couple with yellow-white hair slurped coffee and murmured to one another while reading the local newspaper, their voices stained with decades of cigarette smoke. Sometimes it’s nice to find a place where time stands still.