Your Aesthetic Origin Story

Art that defines you before you can define yourself

Photo by Darius Bashar on Unsplash

I can still picture the room where I listened to the song on a friend’s phonograph the first time. And also the second and third time. An enclosed sunroom, of some kind. I sat on the floor. The words and melody, together, pierced my pre-adolescent soul. Strange emotional combinations arose in me: Melancholic, yet satisf…