Every day it gets a little more Christmassy, doesn’t it? Today’s bit of festive acceleration is a charity choir, singing carols in unison in the foyer of Sainsbury’s.
I miss the choir at lots of times during the year of course, but more-so in Advent. Joy and hope collide so beautifully around those familiar old harmonies and eloquent words. I kind of wish I were still bringing some of that into this dark old world.
The acoustics are helping them out. They’re singing very brightly and confidently, and very well - albeit still in unison. It’s lovely. And it’s lovely to have something so familiar and so understandable in my world.
I’ve felt this week as though there’s very little about the world I really understand at all. I got upset about a thing that really baffled me. I got lost in a whirl of stylesheets and skins and CSS and divs and classes. I also said some things that somehow caused the strangest of reactions and I’m too tired to calculate the wiring path of cause and effect. It’s been a humbling week.
But music, Christmas music at that, with all its matin-chimes and Babel sounds and glorias in excelsis ... I know where I am with that lovely old stuff.
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