I usually start my day listening to the radio  (NPR or BBC to ground me after several hours in dreamland), or a podcast, but today I returned to Miles Davis, Kind of Blue. It made a big difference. Instead of actively listening in order to decipher the meaning of words placed end to end like a series of equations, I let the music happen to me. It's an incredible album that doesn't seem to work very hard at what it does. It felt like the music was building a scaffolding for my day and giving me the time and space to slowly climb up gaining more and more perspective with each step I took.