Do you still laugh sometimes? Do you know how to lose yourself completely all over again in a moment of elemental joy—because of a view of houses, a human atmosphere, a song, a bit of landscape, a piece of film: in short a piece of good warm life? It’s something I love so much in you.
[Simone Weil, from a letter to Albertine Thévenon]

The first track on Christopher Tin’s double Grammy-winning album is lovely: “Baba Yetu,” the Lord’s Prayer in Swahili, sung by the Soweto Gospel Choir. And it made history as the only video game theme song ever to win a Grammy. But as far as my listening goes to date, the whole album deserved its Grammy.

[Thanks to my mom for pointing “Baba Yetu” out to me; she found it on The Anchoress.]