Tuesday of Goodness and Rainbows
Things that make me smile:
- The sudden smell of autumn. For some reason there's a cleanness to the air as Autumn approaches that doesn't exist in summer or spring, even when it's not cold. You take a breath and it's like breathing raw, untarnished life.
- Conversations with friends that make me laugh.
- Finding random things lying about that make me think of good times: like the Finish flag in the car from the Eurovision Dance contest we were watching at the SECC on Saturday.
- I experience the warm glow of a difficult task accomplished well and against all the odds. Like managing, on the third attempt, to more-or-less accurately sight-read through some rather nasty chorus pieces by Beethoven. To pick an entirely random example in no way attached to real life... ;)
- The sodden, emotionally-drained fatigue of a day at work gives way to the crisper and more satisfying fatigue of a real work out. Believe it or not, choral singing does that, even if you don't get out of breath: the combination of intense concentration, the almost hypnotic effects of the music and the physical effort of controlling your breath for several hours raises the adrenaline levels in a similar way to sports.