ICYMI - These videos are part of my series that I am doing on YouTube called “Attic Meditations”, where the idea is to do one hundred of these regularly to learn more about composing, arranging and overall listening. I got back into making this after almost a three-week gap, and I loved putting this together.
Just a few recommendations for the weekend along with this:
To listen -
Nala Sinephro - “Endlessness”
Natalia Lafourcade - Soledad y El Mar
Florist - Live at the Tiny Desk Concert
To read -
How Writing ‘My Struggle’ Undid Knausgaard by Ruth Franklin
Nothing on the Internet is real by Applied Psychology (Substack)
If you’re so smart, why don’t you lead a better life? by Shahid H N
Poetry -
Perhaps the World Ends Here - Joy Harjo
The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live.
The gifts of earth are brought and prepared, set on the table. So it has been since creation, and it will go on.
We chase chickens or dogs away from it. Babies teethe at the corners. They scrape their knees under it.
It is here that children are given instructions on what it means to be human. We make men at it, we make women.
At this table we gossip, recall enemies and the ghosts of lovers.
Our dreams drink coffee with us as they put their arms around our children. They laugh with us at our poor falling-down selves and as we put ourselves back together once again at the table.
This table has been a house in the rain, an umbrella in the sun.
Wars have begun and ended at this table. It is a place to hide in the shadow of terror. A place to celebrate the terrible victory.
We have given birth on this table, and have prepared our parents for burial here.
At this table we sing with joy, with sorrow. We pray of suffering and remorse. We give thanks.
Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.
see you next time,
love,
tijbed.
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