Shelter from the Storm.

What to gravitate to?

You know, the world is burning. Everyone seems stressed, frantic, unsure, confused, panicky.

Where does one find shelter?

Dreams. Love. Poetry. Music. Beauty. Intelligence.

The a.m. soundtrack - Bon Iver's "Bon Iver." (2011). What to say about this record? Beautiful. Justin Vernon's voice is an extraordinary, compelling, luxurious instrument. It carries such weight, gravity, emotion, beauty, vulnerability, grace. I must admit, I can never understand the words of the songs he is singing. His voice conjures such a spell, it is just the tone, the timbre, the expressiveness of his being, the way he enunciates vowels that captivates me. Sound. Pure sound. Really, Vernon is a magus. Casting a spell of beauty. Spell-binding. Beyond words. Beyond meaning. The meaning is embedded in the beauty. It is overwhelming. Inspiring. Powerful. The sound that beauty makes when it enters one's consciousness.