Shuffle

I try not to take weeks off, but given tech snafus and a late return from a week away, I am too lazy to put something serious together for my Monday morning missive. Here’s a rerun of an image I created, that I thought was pretty clever (it’s essentially my book in meme form).

Shuffle!

Don’t you just love the serendipity that sometimes appears when you just put your music library on shuffle and let it take you where it may. Sometimes it launches you jarringly from Arvo Pärt into System of a Down and you swear you will never hit that damn button again.

But sometimes it knows exactly what to play.

It’s a flight home after vacation, and as we begin the descent, the cabin lights turn off and the first notes of Funkadelic’s Maggot Brain fill my ears. The song was timed perfectly to absorb the atmosphere of the dark cabin, the city lights below, and the somber mood of returning to the real world after a week on the beach, ending the exact moment we rolled into the gate. Perfection.