Tuesday night dinner
Hearing and listening together, following together the almost too quick bright brilliant passage of melody, dispersing and vanishing in the air. For an hour to share this without speaking. To sit here with other people in the dark. A small experience, small enough to hold in the hand, to touch and smooth later in a pocket.
Sally Rooney • Intermezzo: The global #1 bestseller from the author of Normal People
Just heared the music from „3 Nüsse für Aschenbrödel“ and felt instant calmness, happiness and home. This is what is needed to reduce cortisol and be calm. Memories trigger this. Like smells. Tastes. Music. We do not need all these apps. They just stress out. Everything is measured. This is horrible. Not intuitive.
A fine work of art—music, dance, painting, story—has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.