Driving back from my final SM class (Social Media, not the other SM - although sometimes it feels rather similar) with the terrific Mark Schaefer (I’ve done the course twice now - it takes time to fit it all together to even begin to do it!), Gustav Holst’s the Planet Suite was playing on NPR. Any two bars and I instinctively recognize the piece. Parts of it are so lovely that it almost hurts.
This is music I was weaned on and it brought to mind other ‘achingly beautiful’ inspirations: a ‘warm
