"Familiarity & Yearning"

At Fausta’s Blog, she links to this lovely short film, a sweetly evocative scene of the joys of anticipation to which we – in our era of immediate gratification – no longer allow ourselves. Perhaps that is why it made one of Fausta’s reader’s weep; perhaps we miss anticipation in our move to easy cynicism, and we miss the intimacies of family which allow us to know each other so well that we may both tease and enjoy each other.

And in the background, Bryn Terfel singing the Welsh lullabye, “Suo-Gan”. I think Fausta gets it just right when she answers, “it’s a wonderful combination of familiarity and yearning.”