I don’t mean you have to gather round the piano. Â (But you can if you like.) I’m thinking about ways to relax, be with others, that are also not too draining on the environment. In my teens, it was books and music – and TV at points. Â The obligatory Friday night long soak in the …
Category archives: Music and sound
Down tools
Perhaps I should begin with the candles. To light them, to pass my hands over them, and say a blessing. To cover my hair, and to declare ‘Shabbat Shalom’. Because I understand why Friday night is a thing of wonder, a night when rest begins, when time stretches into another day that also has its …
Channelling your inner Julie Andrews
We started listening to The Sound of Music in the car at one point on Sunday. All very nice, all very singalong. Today, one of the songs came back to me again – the difference was that I found myself wandering around, singing it. In the car. At the supermarket (sotto voce in store, a …
Going my way?
It’s not about asking for a lift. But those days when things go OK – in fact, go to plan, or if we’re lucky, even better – they do lift us. So today’s thing to treasure is life going better than expected. Sudden rays of sunshine when the forecast was for cloud. What brightens the …
Rain on the windows
Over in Facebookland, a friend of mine is doing a daily update of something she’s thankful for, in the run up to Thanksgiving. I suppose this set of musings is a fairly similar notion. Some of the idea of the ‘box of delights’ is a reappreciation of little things – with perhaps some encouragement to …