Such great reflections on joy and the current moment, in this essay by Lawrence Peryer on seeing David Byrne’s tour:

Depression has a gravitational field. It pulls everything toward itself, including time, attention, hope, the ability to feel pleasure in the moment it’s happening. You can know intellectually that your kids are a source of joy, that your partner loves you, that the music is beautiful. You can know it and still feel the absence of it, the gap between knowing and feeling.

Byrne’s show is not letting the audience hide in that gap. The joy isn’t theoretical. It’s not aspirational content you can file away for later. It’s happening right in front of you, thirteen people smiling at each other with genuine affection, moving in choreographed celebration of being alive together, and the invitation is implicit: this could be you. This should be you.