Communication is essential to the establishment of peaceful relations between living entities. Where communication breaks down, conflicts, misunderstandings, strife and violence are the result. Understanding and empathy can only exist when thoughts and feelings can be shared. When we turn a deaf ear to the expressions of another, we diminish them, robbing them of their intrinsic value, creating distances that only serve to amplify the dissonance between us.
Walking with the broken rocks upon the heaving thrust of mountain echoes, movement becomes challenged. Something may have taken hold here, but its residue has since faded into the dust of winds long blown away. Though memory shards crack and splinter through the ice age history once foretold, there are now no more than fragments upon a beach receding beyond the breaking waves.