Sheila Das investigates the role of silence, whether the pauses in conversation or of conversation. Why may we want to create them and linger? How do the faux silences that pepper our modern societies, like contactless groceries, affect us? If we are to create more deliberate spaces, like meditation or retreats, that allow for silience, what may emerge in conversation? Maybe greater togetherness.

Thinkers mentioned: David Henry Thoreau, Jenny O'Dell, Ian Williams, Michael Pollan, Richard Wagamese, Vanessa Vandergrift, and Sarah McLauchlan.

I recommend for meditation... Thupten Jinpa's A Fearless Heart.