Nicola POWYS
Sep 20, 2023

Thanks for sharing. I am all for more awareness of listening - and agree with all your observations. Just wanted to point out that we need to be mindful of not speaking when it is important to say something ! I have been encouraged all my life to stop - stop talking so much - stop singing so much - stop dancing so much. I now live in a country where children are not encouraged to question, to have an opinion.
Who are these people telling us to be quiet? What’s their agenda I wonder…

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Nicola POWYS
Nicola POWYS

Written by Nicola POWYS

Artist, activist and writer using words and paint existentially. Find my artwork here: htpps//www.instagram.com/playspowys

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I really appreciate your pointing this out, Nicola. Ironically, this whole practice and this post really came out of a twenty page paper I wrote in grad school on my resistance to stillness, a lot of which had to do with being silenced (I think I…

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