Now, at this stage in life, I feel a kind of freedom — a freedom to speak, to reflect, to share what I’ve seen without worrying what others think.

Maybe it’s time for my generation — the so-called boomers — to open up, to pass on what we’ve felt and witnessed to the generations coming after us.

You know that old song by Junior Reid and The Soup Dragons — ‘I’m free to do what I want, any old time.’ That’s what this is about.

This is The New Silence — a space for memories, reflections, and the art that connects us all from an ordinary mans perspective.”