There I was, alone but feeling so
complete, wandering through this
dimly lit music store in the city. It was mid-day but with the
lighting and music it felt more like the most
peaceful evening I've never experienced.
If I could have had the
opportunity, at that time, to be
anywhere else in the world.. I wouldn't have taken it because there, it was
exactly where I wanted to be. I think that's one of the very few times
in my life that I've thought that way, whole-heartedly loving my
surroundings and wishing to be absolutely no where else in the
universe.
I think probably the best part of the entire experience was that the music they were playing, which happened to be
Chantal Kreviazuk (thought I didn't know at the time), was so enrapturing it was so
achingly beautiful. I actually purchased
Colour Moving and Still, her newest album, after I listened to it
in its entirety while I wandered aimlessly.
She has a song titled "
Blue", "you've never seen the colour blue..." and when I heard that, I believed it, because it became
more than a color and I heard it in her voice, the way she sings. It's
intoxicating, so alluring and it draws you in until you never ever want to
leave again. One day I might
twist my reality so that I could have stayed there, for as long as I wanted... for days even. Incidentally, there's an
extra CD along with her album with some covers on it. I can listen to it now and feel almost
what I felt that day, but never quite the same, never so
infinitely content, at peace.
"
It feels like home to me."