Nocturne

I thought a picture might liven things up a little. So that it's not just text, engrossing as it has been. Pictures can add a new dimension - a window into another world. Having said that, I'm not entirely sure what the following picture adds. But they say these things are in the eye of the beholder.

And that has made all the difference.

Earlier, I was listening to Chopin in the car. On a CD (as there isn't room for a piano). Although you know what to expect, because you've listened to it so many times before, it can still catch you by surprise: the way it resonates so deeply with how you are feeling at the time; or maybe it bewitches you into feeling how young Chopin felt. For all its reckless flamboyance, it seems so intensely introverted. One of those things that are somehow just right. Makes you wish you kept up the piano lessons.