“Listen…. Can you hear it?”
Pablo Eduardo pauses, tilting his head and pointing to the heavens. At first it seems perfectly quiet here, among the thick green of flowers and trees, but after a moment of stillness, there it is: The sound of caterpillars munching on leaves, a sound so insistent that one wonders how it could have ever gone unnoticed. Other things break through the apparent silence as well, like the buzzing of summer insects and the crying of birds overhead, sounds that were once drowned out by our own footsteps and the omnipresent thoughts always swirling through our minds.
Eduardo is
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