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I always seem to sit down to write here when I don't have that much time.  I carry around this little notebook that is teeming in things to write about, but don't actually have the time capacity to sit down and really delve deep into one of the subjects, which is sad because I bet some pretty interesting thoughts would come out.  

I was listening to a song by Aaron Niequist the other night called "End of the Story."  To tell you the truth, I really haven't listened too closely to the lyrics yet because I've been hung up on the actual music for about 4 days now.  There are some circumstances and objects that seem to knock the wind out of me.  The "melopathics" with in Creation.  (I'm not sure I can turn that into a noun, but I'm going to anyway because, hey, Jonathan and I made it up and we can do whatever we want with it, right?)  

Let me divulge into what melopathics are for a moment so that you understand.  I find that it is a very rare person that sees these amorphic and anomalistic aspects in the mundane day.  The best way that I can describe them is not by what they are but the feeling that is incorporated with them.  They are the things that create a quiver somewhere within your heart or soul or brain...whatever.  I don't even know.  But they do something very different from everything else that you encounter throughout the day.  They can be quick or prolonged.  The other night, I was walking on the sidewalk and talking on the phone.  I looked up into the streetlight through one of the trees that had just started popping out the buds of the leaves that have now taken up residency within the branches.  But the poofs of green against the backlight made me stop and catch my breath for a moment.  

That is a melopathic moment.  

When absolute beauty and reality come together...

Anyway, so this song by Aaron is pretty much one of those.  The music itself is just a prolonged melopathic instance.  (Over the Rhine tends to do this too...)  There's a period at the end of the song when he makes the perfect use of dissonance and it just makes you want to cry.  

So I need to go to work.  This has all been rambling anyhow.  Bleh.