I am flying back to Chicago for just on day in order to be part of this extraordinary project!   ANAPHORA at the GREEN MILL jazz club!  Sunday, July 20 at 2pm.   4802 N. Broadway Ave,  Chicago.  To learn more, please click on my top friend 1.   I promise some fantastic music and a big hug after concert to everyone who comes!

Usually it takes something really special for me to drop everything, and sit down to write a blog entry...  Something significant enough for me to feel an urge to share it with the whole world.  

I woke up this morning at the crack of dawn, quietly made myself a tea and climbed up on the roof-deck of the building....

A cold front had just passed through Chicago the night before, and after a week of hot sticky weather it was quite a change...  The air was so fresh, that after the first breath, my body and brain went into a sort of sweet shock,  the kind you get when you get an unexpected kiss from someone you really love.   The air was so pure that I could still taste in it the freshness of the Arcitc Ocean, where it was born, just a few days ago, still unspoilt by long exhausting travels.

Then I looked up and saw the same view that fascinates me every morning:  the Lincoln Park,  the Lake,  the Downtown with Sears Tower to the right...  Except this morning everything looked much sharper, brighter and much more three-dimensional.  Almost as if I were wearing some sort of amazing polarized glasses....

There are some experiences in life that don't seem to wear out their powerful impact, no matter how many times you relive them.   Listening to Mozart's Requiem, flying above the Earth, taking walks with my son, and watching Chicago in the morning are some of the things that do it for me.

i am at a festival outside columbus ohio.  these are some of the most peaceful days ever.  my stress level is 0.008%.  everyone is so kind to me that i feel like i might become completely unfit for outside life by the time i have to leave.  like an astronaut that has been in weightlessness for too long,  oops.. forgot how to walk. 

the landscape is quite beautiful, in its simplicity and straightforwardness.  i take walk up the mountains every morning, and each one is a journey of self-exploration.  used to be my most dreaded movie genre.  now things have flipped.  before i thought i had myself on the palm of my hand.  but now sometimes i feel like there's a part of me that i don't even know.

i tune into silence of the nature.  i hear the music from inside.  just like the songs of the space between the planets.  the tunes of the space between eternities.