Sillage (n.)- a scent that lingers in the air; the trail left in the water; the impression made in space after someone has been and gone; the trace of someone’s perfume.
“The alphabet of grace is full of sibilants—sounds that
can't be shouted but only whispered: the sounds of bumblebees and wind and
lovers in the dark, of whitecaps hissing up flat over the glittering sand and
cars on wet roads, of crowds hushed in vast and vaulted places, the sound of
your own breathing. I believe that in sibilants life is trying to tell us
something. The trees, ghosts, dreams, faces, the waking up and eating and
working of life, are trying to tell us something, to take us somewhere.”
~ Frederick Buechner
~Image Rene Magritte
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