Damien Rice - Cannonball (cover by Chelsea Williams)

It seemed like the perfect Thursday to switch my folky Simon & Patrick back from open G to standard tuning. I guess it's been a while because normal chords didn't come back to me quite as smoothly as I would have hoped. Being able to play this one again - though, admittedly, not nearly as beautifully as Chelsea does - made my day. Here's Chelsea Williams covering Damien Rice's Cannonball. A gorgeous rendition of one of my favorite songs.

There's still a little bit of your ghost, your witness.

There's still a little bit of your face I haven't kissed.

The Most Astounding Fact

 Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson shares what he finds to be the most astounding fact about the universe.

"...when I look up at the night sky and I know that, yes, we are part of this universe, we are in this universe; but, perhaps, more important than both of those facts is that the universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up - many people feel small because they're small and the universe is big - but I feel big because my atoms came from those stars..."

Perhaps a haiku is fitting:

Admiring stars

Naive selfless entities

Their death creates me.