Breathing Apparatus

we get a new day
every day
until we get
the last

which day is this one?

fresh or tired
habitual or inspired
we truly do not know
the greatest mystery
living
in that
next
breath

Illustration by Elizabeth Shippen Green
from THE MANSION by Henry Van Dyke, 1911

A Swig of the Sonic Elixir- Ben Howard’s Depth Over Distance

Sometimes in the Archives, I’ll let pictures speak their thousand.  Pause on words and share an image.

And then, once in a while, a song finds its way to my ears and takes me down in a humble bow to the power of sound.  In this place, beyond the mind, there is only feeling.  Where every cell is plucked to quiver in remembrance.  Where connection is not a concept, but an experience.

Yesterday, a monotonous project on the computer was transformed by the music of Ben Howard.  I stumbled across a KCRW studio session of him performing “Depth Over Distance” and suddenly, there was more at hand than Quickbooks accounting.  Life breathed new through song.

Music is medicine.  Here’s a swig of the sonic elixir.