A few things with restorative powers
Track #3 of Fatboy Slim’s latest CD, Palookaville.
Evening in Missoula tea (actually, not a tea but a tisane, as you can read about at Tea Source, sweetened with Ames Farm honey.
The books of Jane Austen, of which I just finished Emma. Charlotte Bronte had a point when she wrote
What sees keenly, speaks aptly, moves flexibly, it suits her to study; but what throbs fast and full, though hidden, what the blood rushes through, what is the unseen seat of life and the sentient target of death–this Miss Austen ignores.
Yet sometimes I need soothing rather than stirring, and in those cases I prefer to spend time with Miss Austen.