{"id":38,"date":"2025-07-29T22:06:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T14:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ownslp.com\/?p=38"},"modified":"2025-08-12T20:34:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:34:01","slug":"chapter-2-a-confession-in-recovery-silent-trees-and-my-fathers-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ownslp.com\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 2: A Confession in Recovery \u2013 &#8220;Silent Trees and My Father&#8217;s Face&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Even now, meeting people makes me happy. However, at the same time, I wonder if people are curious about my current condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The last moment I remember is thinking I needed to shower because I was so cold, and that I should tell my son, &#8220;My head hurts.&#8221; But after that thought, I have absolutely no memory of almost <strong>20 days<\/strong>. I don&#8217;t know what happened during that time, but fragments are slowly coming back to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">My <strong>father&#8217;s face<\/strong> comes to mind. It was a place so utterly silent, it almost felt like heaven. Only trees were visible, and there was no speech, no sound. Sometimes it felt like I was talking to my father, but I can&#8217;t remember what we talked about. What&#8217;s certain, though, is that <strong>my father seemed happy<\/strong>. He kept praying. Perhaps he was joyful that I was alive and hadn&#8217;t died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Even these days, that scene suddenly comes to mind: a <strong>large tree<\/strong>, and <strong>silence<\/strong>. What comes to mind again is another large tree. In front of it, my heart, too, becomes strangely <strong>silent<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2705 Simple, Repetitive Word Practice \u2013 Speech Support (English)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Lunchbox Lunchbox Lunchbox Lunchbox Lunchbox Lunchbox Lunchbox Lunchbox Lunchbox Lunchbox<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Light bulb Light bulb Light bulb Light bulb Light bulb Light bulb Light bulb Light bulb Light bulb Light bulb<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Baduk Baduk Baduk Baduk Baduk Baduk Baduk Baduk Baduk Baduk<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Flower pot Flower pot Flower pot Flower pot Flower pot Flower pot Flower pot Flower pot Flower pot Flower pot<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Horse Horse Horse Horse Horse Horse Horse Horse Horse Horse<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Clock Clock Clock Clock Clock Clock Clock Clock Clock Clock<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Squid Squid Squid Squid Squid Squid Squid Squid Squid Squid<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Garlic Garlic Garlic Garlic Garlic Garlic Garlic Garlic Garlic Garlic<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Frog Frog Frog Frog Frog Frog Frog Frog Frog Frog<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Forsythia Forsythia Forsythia Forsythia Forsythia Forsythia Forsythia Forsythia Forsythia Forsythia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mugunghwa Mugunghwa Mugunghwa Mugunghwa Mugunghwa Mugunghwa Mugunghwa Mugunghwa Mugunghwa Mugunghwa<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cactus Cactus Cactus Cactus Cactus Cactus Cactus Cactus Cactus Cactus<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tree Tree Tree Tree Tree Tree Tree Tree Tree Tree<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fishing Fishing Fishing Fishing Fishing Fishing Fishing Fishing Fishing Fishing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Butterfly Butterfly Butterfly Butterfly Butterfly Butterfly Butterfly Butterfly Butterfly Butterfly<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even now, meeting people makes me happy. 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