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Strolling the isles of a grocery story in a predominantly retired/semi-retired demographic town in Western NC, my mind was overjoyed to silently sing along "...press your ray gun to my hea-yead...", & then looking about, Amongst old folks of my generation, am I alone here memory-playing the guitar outtro, & Moonage Daydreaming?

Marice Ravel, Boléro, "maximizes the breadth of colors and sounds that can be found in an orchestra...with long crescendos over time...from with very soft at the beginning to very loud at the end..." Whence did I recall ever hearing Boléro ? The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life, Frank Zappa. Such is the garden of forking paths ...

The nearest cat gets swooped up for a dance...the transfer of tenderness.

"A slow and mysterious but eventually...a composed spell…a world flush with wonderment and puzzle and mystery."

“Should I perhaps try to explain for you with some hackneyed phrase how and why experiencing beauty can make life meaningful? I prefer to confine myself to the following thought experiment: imagine that you are sitting in a concert hall and listening to your favorite symphony, and your favorite bars of the symphony resound in your ears, and you are so moved by the music that it sends shivers down your spine; and now imagine that it would be possible (something that is psychologically so impossible) for someone to ask you in this moment whether your life has meaning. I believe you would agree with me if I declared that in this case you would only be able to give one answer, and it would go something like: ‘It would have been worth it to have lived for this moment alone!’” Writing in Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything, Victor Frankl speaks with "passionate life-tested conviction to the two great pillars of aliveness that had helped him survive the Holocaust and that help so many of us, even in circumstances far less life-threatening, survive our lives — music and the natural world."

☝️ Now that made me smile!

"This couple bought a rundown abandoned house for $1.5 million and plan to make it their forever home: Take a look inside...While cleaning out the home, they found some of the original furniture, old photos of what the house looked like before, and a record player that was hooked up to speakers all over the house. Volkov found that discovery pretty exciting. 'Imagine having a house back in the day and you could play music everywhere in it from a record player,' he says. 'The record player was still there when we bought the house, so that was really cool.'" https://apple.news/AjoyndHDJQOms8_wEhzSNXQ 😎 🔊