Cathedrals. By Joan Osborne

I think that the Muse actually wrote this song, or Joan Osborne IS the Muse.

"In the Cathedrals of New York and Rome, There is a feeling that you should just go home, and spend a lifetime finding out just where that is."

Do I find my center in the money and worldliness of New York, or do I find my center's home in the worlds of faith in Rome? The Muse says that neither place with ever give rest. The honest reality says that neither is the external answer to the important questions of existence.

When I graduated from High School, my High School experience ended with a speaker encouraging us to eschew the journey into one's self that was the hallmark of what he saw as that moments self-centeredness and head outward to work for, beside, and with others. Little did he know, but I had really never actually thought about that which he was discouraging us from. I assumed the only vision for proper living was life toward others.  My teaching and upbringing was that life stinks, and our goal can be to help others in all the thousand ways that life can allow that to happen if we are willing participants. The message that day planted in my just what the Muse tells me in this song.

If I go out to work in the chaos of the universe, that is find and good. Nevertheless, home is critical. Knowing how to find home without external religious structures nor fame and fortune.

Marvelous to be reminded of this is such a sonically pleasant way.

Sit. Enjoy.