It's been miserable round here for the last couple of days, relentless grey skies and pouring rain, the sort of days where you don't feel like leaving the house but know spending the whole day indoors won't be good for you either. I'm off work this week and from the forecast it looks like we'll be attempting to dodge the rain all week.
I met a previously only online friend on Saturday afternoon for a few drinks and it was lovely. They say that you should be careful arranging to meet strangers from the internet in real life but my experience of it has always been good. Yesterday we had Sunday lunch with one of my brothers and his family- again, good to get out despite the awful weather. One of our subconscious responses to Isaac's death has been that we've bunkered in a bit, taken our collective foot off the pedal and just stopped doing as much stuff as we used to, sometimes finding ourselves unable to make plans or commit to anything. Spending parts of this weekend engaging has been good and maybe we should just get our biggest coats on and get out in the rain.
This long ambient piece came out back in 1999, from Pan American, an artist from Chicago. Beautiful, gentle, minimalism with synth chords, some faint noises (like a pen being tapped on a radiator) as a kind of percussion and some strings, a cello or viola. Contemplative and optimistic, the sort of thing to set you up for the day.
Glad to hear that you managed to get out for a while Adam. That photo is fabulous and the Pan American tune, currently meandering in the background as I type, is quite lovely.
ReplyDeleteIt's lovely isn't it- the tune. The photo is Edale in the Peak District. Not sure I've ever been as wet.
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