Internal soundtrack
I’m always amazed at my waking soundtrack. I don’t know if anyone else experiences this, but I always have a song in my head when I wake up. Usually it’s influenced by my dreams or whatever I read just before I turned out the light. It amazes me how thoughts percolate when I’m asleep, sometimes bubbling through my dreams and crystalising in a song that perfectly reflects the mood of the thoughts I haven’t even had yet. Often it’s a song I haven’t heard in weeks or months; it’s like my internal computer searches through the MP3 lists and plays the track most appropriate. Weird. And very cool.
Last night I was reading the last few chapters of The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. It’s a brutal book, exquisitely written but horrible to absorb. I’ve put it down three times and vowed not to pick it up again because it disturbed me so much, but I’m glad I persevered. It’s about a boy growing up in Afghanistan, and is partly about extremism and the way the Taleban changed the country. I didn’t quite finish it, turned out the light and went to sleep. I didn’t dream about it, but woke up with a strong sense of sadness and
One Of These Days
When time shall slip its cog in place
And spin its line of lovely lace
Then love and peace come face to face
One of these days
When sorrow can nowhere be found
And greed shall lay its weapons down
And hate give up without a sound
One of these days
When love by tender instrument
Through circumstance and incident
Shall peace and joy again invent
One of these days
To see this from within the soul
We must be patient and consoled
To know the joy that's ours to hold
One of these days
And so with earnest inward eyes
We man the post where duty lies
And seek to win the precious prize
One of these days
One of these days...
- Small Town Poets, from Listen Closely
in my head, spooling over and over. If you have a strong stomach the book is well worth reading.
Last night I was reading the last few chapters of The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. It’s a brutal book, exquisitely written but horrible to absorb. I’ve put it down three times and vowed not to pick it up again because it disturbed me so much, but I’m glad I persevered. It’s about a boy growing up in Afghanistan, and is partly about extremism and the way the Taleban changed the country. I didn’t quite finish it, turned out the light and went to sleep. I didn’t dream about it, but woke up with a strong sense of sadness and
One Of These Days
When time shall slip its cog in place
And spin its line of lovely lace
Then love and peace come face to face
One of these days
When sorrow can nowhere be found
And greed shall lay its weapons down
And hate give up without a sound
One of these days
When love by tender instrument
Through circumstance and incident
Shall peace and joy again invent
One of these days
To see this from within the soul
We must be patient and consoled
To know the joy that's ours to hold
One of these days
And so with earnest inward eyes
We man the post where duty lies
And seek to win the precious prize
One of these days
One of these days...
- Small Town Poets, from Listen Closely
in my head, spooling over and over. If you have a strong stomach the book is well worth reading.