cheese & hallelujah

Favourite thing today: there were so many but I am going to pare it down to one: stopping by Rob and Cathy's, talking, drinking wine, and eating some delicious cheese that Rob got from Taste of Quebec (a cheese shop that, ironically, one might expect on someone's favourites-of-Toronto list). This visit wasn't planned and its very unexpectedness is part of what made it so perfect. And the crumbly melt-in-your-mouth cheese. And catching up with friends.

(One more thing: stepping out into the lovely hush of snow falling on a Toronto side street at night.)

And from the list: I'm going to return to Sandra's recommendation of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah that I noted the other day. Steve has since shown me how to post links more easily than I was before (and less messily) and so this gives me the opportunity to add two other versions of Hallelujah: K.D. Lang's (click here) and Rufus Wainwright's (click here). Ted reminded me of K.D. Lang's version and I have always loved Rufus Wainwright's version (Shrek notwithstanding). I find each one of these versions (can Cohen's be called a version?) moving in different ways. They do that thing that good music always does (for me, anyway): a grab/tug/shake in some deep part of one that can neither be located nor defined. Galvanizing and gentle at once.