Something on TV tonight made me think about sometimes how strange it is when you visit other people's houses and go to another room or something and it's so frightfully quiet there and you feel almost like you should tip-toe through the room as quietly as you possibly can. Or else you feel like you want to pause and soak up the silence and perhaps find out something about the silences of other people's homes that are really far more foreign than the silences of your own. But then it's kind of strange to sneak through the silences in another person's home!
Perhaps that's why I always want to make people feel as comfortable in my house as possible ~ let them know that they can do what they like and feel happy and stuff. Nothing worse than being a guest in a home and feeling like you can't move without asking for permission.
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You're so right! I've done that several times recently...
Like at a party at someone's house, I get near the edge of a room and duck around a corner and stumble upon a magically quiet room or something.
The "magically quiet room" is definitely the best way to desribe it :)
It's kind of peaceful but at the same time you sort of get a feeling like you shouldn't be there for too long... or something like that.
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