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Nov 12
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Andrew Knight

The Silence

An excerpt from the Journal of Andrew Knight:

March 31

Returned to Bristol to retrieve all of the artwork I had left from AP Studio Arts. The trip was bittersweet; Bristol was its quiet, picturesque self - seemingly unchanged as it sat at the feet of the Green Mountains.

Though when I was allowed inside Mount Abraham, what struck me was the silence.
The sight of the hallways being so empty, so devoid of life deeply unsettled me in a way I still don't entirely understand. Without the traffic of hundreds of students and teachers, the corridors seemed to stretch on endlessly. I was a ghost drifting among these familiar halls as a reminder of what once was.
There I was, the young man whose voice read so many morning announcements, now speechless.
 

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  1. Andrew Knight
    Nov 12, 2020

    Though the original journal entry was written in March, I was compelled to share it here.

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  1. Yellow Sweater
    Nov 12, 2020

    There are places in the Olympic mountains (in Washington) where I find the pure wildness deeply unsettling, beautiful, but almost oppressive. I think I feel how my particular shade of humanity doesn't fit into natures harmony.

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  1. charvermont
    Nov 12, 2020

    This is beautiful! It invokes such a picturesque image of our mountains (and the loneliness they sometimes have) in my mind

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  1. Andrew Knight
    Nov 12, 2020

    This was mainly meant to reflect how we were dismissed from school because of covid but the mountains are quite an impressive backdrop in Bristol.

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  1. Yellow Sweater
    Nov 12, 2020

    So sorry! I just re-read your piece! I don; know why I got so confused. It makes perfect sense now, and is even more profound.

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