TUESDAY · THE SMALL INVITATION
You have stopped trusting that your voice, just talking, is worth someone’s time.
You used to leave voicemails. Not the short, efficient kind, but the warm, rambling ones where you circled back mid-sentence to add one more thing.
They were never about delivering information. They were your voice keeping company with someone you loved, arriving whenever that person pressed play.
Texts replaced calls. Then texts themselves got shorter, until calling someone with nothing specific to say started to feel like an imposition.
A voicemail carries something a text cannot: the warmth in your tone, the pause before you start, the small laugh at yourself for going on too long.
That kind of presence was always a gift. Your voice has gone missing from the record the same way you went missing from the photographs.
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Today, pick one person you have been thinking about. Call them, and if it goes to voicemail, stay on the line.
Say whatever comes. No reason or piece of news is required.
The quiet moment before you start talking is the hardest part. After the first few words, the rest comes on its own.
Two minutes of your voice, unedited, is enough.
The person on the other end will hear you and know they were on your mind. And you will remember what your voice sounds like when it is not managing anything.
If you made the call, reply and tell me who it was. I read every one.
THE PERMISSION SLIP
Today you have permission to leave a voicemail that says nothing important.
WHAT SHE SAID
Brenda Ueland wrote that “when we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.” A rambling voicemail is a small way of letting your voice unfold for someone, without editing it first.
See you tomorrow.
If someone came to mind while you were reading this, send her these letters. The Permission Slips are yours when she stays.
