CAFFEEN! Playlist for 2014-09-20: “Endless Journey”

CFN 2014-09-20 coverartIt is often felt that Death is the ultimate Destination.

But what if it isn’t? What if there is another journey, one that it endless, one traveled through by dreams?

 

  • Omnipresent Boundary by Robert Rich , B. Lustmord from the album Stalker.
  • Endless Falls by Loscil from the album Endless Falls.
  • Transference From the Void by Funerary Call from the album Fragments from the Aethyr.
  • I guess I have to move on, right? by Man an Ocean from the album Fields/Hurricanes.
  • Step into the Other World by Oresund Space Collective from the album Give your Brain a rest from the Matrix.
  • Black Horizon by Kuato from the album The Great Upheaval.

 

Chestnuts roasting over an open memory

I don’t have a lot of rituals. I have a few patterns, like my morning routine, but they aren’t filled with any meaning. They are functional patterns, designed to take me from initial State A to End State B with an efficient number of steps, established through many years of practice and slow, gradual, mostly subconscious modification.

But tonight I picked up chestnuts. Honest-to-God, 100% edible, roastable-just-like-the-song chestnuts. And I will roast them, probably Thursday night, and I will eat them. And it will be ritual, a welcoming sign of the Christmas season approaching. Continue reading