It had been a very busy day.
Sitting on the bus, finally on his way home, he had so much of it still swirling around in his head. He was sure he was not alone in this. Other people must experience this same feeling of needing some sort of panacea to bring them out of it all. Something to let it all just drift away, even if it’s only for a short while. Some little piece of heaven. Of course, he mused, there were so many different ideas about what this could be. There must be so many different kinds. Surely, whatever ideas a person comes up with, these are necessarily coloured by their own personal preferences. Could one of them be some sort of intellectual repast? He smiled to himself.
As soon as he got home, he prepared a mug of coffee. He took it to his study. From a shelf he selected a CD case containing multiple discs. He opened it and took one out that contained works by Tomaso Albinoni. He fed it into the player and selected the track for his Adagio in G minor. He put it on pause. From another shelf he took down a large, hard backed book and placed it on the desk. He picked up his Bluetooth headphones. Once he’d settled into his comfy armchair, he adjusted them. He started the music.
Sipping his coffee, he picked up ‘The World’s Finest Art’ book and turned to the section devoted to Italian Renaissance painters. He opened the chapter showing some of the masterpieces by Sandro Botticelli. He turned pages until the painting Primavera appeared and almost immediately lost himself in the hidden mysteries of the artist’s work.
He let out a long, soft sigh.
Heaven!