I had this video, Strange Affair, on the blog about four years ago and just wanted to share it again. Good sound for a cold and quiet Sunday morning. Plus the image that I used to accompany the post (a painting that is, of course, titled Strange Affair) is one of those images that both sticks in my mind and meshes well with June Tabor’s beautiful interpretation ( accompanied by one of my favorites, Martin Simpson, on guitar) of the Richard Thompson song.
There’s something stark in both the song and the painting that appeals to my sensibilities. A sort of joy found in certain moments of melancholy. There was a moment like that last week when I was walking through the woods to the studio. It was extremely cold with the sky a flat gray slate and there hardly another sound other than the trudge of my footsteps in the snow. It seemed like such a bleak and sterile moment but then a single snowflake drifted down, dancing delicately in the air, and I was suddenly filled with a joy that I couldn’t quite put my finger on. It wasn’t happiness. Just the joy of feeling connected to the world in that moment.
Joyous melancholy. A paradox. A strange affair, to be sure.
So, pardon me for showing this image and this video again. It was four years ago after all. Enjoy and have a great Sunday.
Redtree Times 
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