Time Out Ten

Skylark

For this item you need to be able to stop for ten minutes.

We are often moving on to the next job, the next meeting, scrolling down social media, taking the next call ......'Time Out Ten' asks you to stop for ten minutes and listen to a particular piece of music; to find a time when you won't be interrupted, when you can put in/on your headphones and chill out. Ten minutes isn't long.

Skylark

Have you seen a valley green with spring

Where my heart can go a-journeying

Over the shadows and the rainT

o a blossom covered lane?

Find a quiet place and imagine sitting in a summer meadow. Take a while in your ten minute time out to picture the country side, the clear stream, the blossom covered lane and listen to a skylark singing overhead (here).

Now here is Hoagy Carmichael's famous tune with saxophonist Paul Desmond and a band including
Jack DeJohnette (drums); Bob James (piano) and Ron Carter (bass).

Skylark

I don't know if you can find these things

But my heart is riding on your wings

So if you see them anywhere

Won't you lead me there