There was this really smart scientist guy who said that people can learn a lot from dogs. He said that when someone you love walks through the door, even if it happens five times a day, you should go totally insane with joy.
[Ben Moon, Denali]

This is Julie Lee, whom I heard for the first time at a retreat in Texas a few weeks ago. The text of the song is an Emily Dickinson poem, and the mournfulness of the melody is beautiful alongside the poem’s longing and its fanciful images. (Click twice, and it will load in a separate page.)

Morning

My favorite line is “has it feet like waterlilies,” and my favorite line break is the one between “could I see it from the mountains” and “if I were as tall as they” — seeing from the mountains feels like, “Oh, yes, right” but then being as tall as the mountans! And standing on top of them — and from there, being able just to catch a glimpse of the place called morning.