Sing in the silence...

I had many interns before, girls and boys.

Joia, a graphic design student from NY, is my intern this Summer. She is special. She is smart, sweet and creative...

And, she cannot speak and hear.

We chat via writing. She told me she never heard a sound, she was born with deaf. Her world is totally silence since beginning.

I try to imagine the world she has, without any sound.

I used to pray hard for a quieter life, but if there is no sound at all?

....

"How about music, Joia?" I asked.

"How about it?" she wrote.

"How do you think about it? What is music to you?"

I felt sorry if someone can't hear music—the most wonderful creation of our life...

" Oh, I like music! I can feel it, my hands, my feet, my body can feel it. The rhythm, the beats..." she's excited.

She gently tapped the desk by hands. I followed.

The rhythm, the beats...

Then, she took my hands. And we started to dance together, without a sound. But there WAS a music with beautiful melody, flowing out from her eyes, through our hands...

Yes, I can feel it. I can feel it... with my heart.