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The empty road

an invitation to silence

Andō
Aug 22, 2023
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Then, broadening out, we found an empty road.
A thousand paces bore us on (and more),
each of us silent, each contemplative.

— Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Purgatorio.

The empty road.

This is th…

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