When the moment is about "the tune", rather than about "me playing the tune" -- that's when I find I'm right in the pocket, enjoying the sensation that the mando is almost playing itself with me as a privileged spectator. Sometimes then the basic tune is revealed as something I had never really grasped before, powerful enough in its simplicity. I wish the moment came more often! -- Paul
He joyously felt himself idling, an unreflective mood in which water was water, sky was sky, breeze was breeze. He knew it couldn't last. -- Thomas McGuane, "Nothing but Blue Skies"
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