On Sunday night Patti Smith played (she is here behind a documentary about her career), and music filled the air deep into the night.
Finally, she raised her head, and when the opening sentiment of Brahms's "Unbewegte laue Luft" — "Motionless balmy air, deep calm of nature" — emerged, it seemed as though she had already begun to sing, long before we heard her.
She hugs me, thanks me for "intelligent questions", and I watch her go: a pale slip of a woman in the dark night air, deep thoughts trailing behind her like exhaust fumes as the car turns out of the road.
This was what we had come for: beautiful scenery deep in the Canadian Rockies, pure air, deep blue skies and lakes – and we had done it with a six-year-old, something a lot of people told us was impossible.
Instead of arctic fronts charging down from the North Pole, he said, the weather from Denver to Buffalo has been mostly dominated by an upper air system in the eastern Pacific Ocean, which has brought a westerly flow of relatively warm and damp air deep into the country.
He draws air deep into his lungs and smiles.
