A Year In Music: 18th January

January 18th, Beirut (2023)

A few clear days of sun, of frost, of ice in the middle of sinking. Head waking in fog, but this morning was bright. Scraping feathers in flowers from the windscreen, taking my son to school, listening to Beirut on the way home, then seeing the Graig above me, the steep, rounded hill, its forested peak overlooking our village and the local school, then …