Alone Time
The stress response,
The anatomy of melancholy.
Home comforts.
Solitude.
The virtual community, the voices of silence,
Where the roots reach for water.
With gratitude to the authors: Stephanie Rosenbloom, Christy Matta, Robert Burton, Cheryl Mendelson, Anthony Storr, Howard Rheingold, André Malraux, and Jeffery Smith. Thanks also to whichever of my brothers gave me Howard Rheingold’s book, many years ago.
I’m also grateful to my public library for being such a rich resource (and for closing mid-March when it became clear that public health concerns demanded it). Alone Time is on loan from the library, one of several books on solitude or silence that I checked out on the first of March, all unaware that social distancing was soon going to become a thing.
