Listening to Ramin Djawadi's cover of Radiohead's Motion Picture Soundtrack, thinking about that scene and feeling emotional on the train
When I look back on my life, these are some of my favorite moments. I'm on some sort of path/in some context I don't have full control over-
But some words, a bit of music, a thought, plunges me into something totally different. A man is running in the distance. The train arrives
Most of art is probably crap - but when it's just right, for you, and it hits the right spot, it can seem like it's the most divine gift
Gratitude exercises often seem a little trite to me, but I find it impossible not to feel grateful at being moved by art
I find myself thinking of the vast tradition of people across millennia being moved and deciding to make the effort to move others in turn
They did this even though they had mouths to feed, and all sorts of stressors & suffering. Life has always been bleak in some way. Yet, art
