Evening: to walk into my house is to walk into dawn, into color, into music, into perfume, into magic, into harmony.
Anaïs Nin (1903 - 1977) (Excerpt from The Diary of Anaïs Nin: Volume 3 1939 - 1944)
JAZZ MEDITATION: Torrey Pines | Spotify Playlist
In complete seriousness, assembling this playlist of hand-picked tracks now approaching a decade is my most valuable possession!
Playlist title comes from when I lived in Crown Point, just east of Pacific Beach in San Diego; I would drive up the coast on weekends fully exploring all the beach towns from Bird Rock to Carlsbad (La Jolla, Torrey Pines, Solana Beach + Encinitas). Immersing in the vibe, learning about what was working with regard to real estate development + design concepts. Coastal areas are super-prime, so rapidly being renovated by big-budget developers, so you see traditional evolving to modern, organic & natural.
We definitely needed a good Jazz playlist to set the mood for the ride and day trips. That’s how it started — why I love it so much, those SoCal beach memories are so spacious and saturated. In the right flow, letting go — music is pure ecstasy! As renowned Rumi translator and poet Coleman Barks so eloquently relates: Your Soul Rises through 9 Levels of Sky! Yes, indeed!
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