Thank you for Human Voice
Vox Humanus. The human voice.
As a person who has spent a great deal of time alone in silence, I can say there is barely such a thing as silence. Even in the middle of the Nevada desert surrounded by miles of nothing and stars I have heard my own heartbeat and the blood rushing into my ears in an effort to find a sound to assimilate.
Sometimes while I am in “silence” I hear my mothers voice, the voices of my friends (even the ones who are not on Earth anymore), my own voice in my head to fill the void. These voices are merely generated by my own thoughts and associations with others. The human voice is very powerful. It penetrates the voice of silence like nothing else can. The vibration of a human voice travels in a way that causes other sounds to become background noise.
When I miss people, I miss their voice. When I fall in love, it is the voice that opens my heart. When I hurt, it is the voice of my friends that soothe me. When I listen to a song, the voice pushes through the music to touch me.
I am primarily a visual person, but the human voice can connect me to feelings and pull me out of isolation and busy brainiac endeavors like no other sound. I am thankful for the human voice.
My Photo of “A voice in the desert”
LEA KELLEY SAYING THANK YOU FOR... 
Gorgeous, Lea. I love the photograph and the meditation here on voices. I’m also struck by the fact that illness can take the form of voices as well. The human voice we hear inside is more of a conduit, it seems, a sound that whatever is inside of us takes on in order to be heard.
That’s beautiful!!!