Dawnings
Simplicity
By Nicholas Hooper
Air
The air
The air you breathe
Is it fresh?
Does it smell good?
Or is it full of the fumes of cars?
Simplicity would be clean air
But is it simple to find clean air?
Is it simple to live in a place of clean air?
Ah, you must drive to find clean air.
Oh, you need a car to live in a place of clean air.
So how can we live in simplicity?
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About Dawnings:
“Every morning at around 5am I get up and go down to my studio. After a short meditation I write down whatever is in my head, giving myself fifteen minutes to do so. Then moving over to the piano (or a more portable instrument like my Ukulele when I'm away), I improvise and record a piece of music inspired by whatever words I just wrote. It is a great way of keeping both my writing and my composing going and I call these small creations Dawnings. They are mostly unedited, like sketches, so that they keep that fresh feeling of an early morning discovery.”
— Nick Hooper