the joy of today

One of my favorite things in the world is watching people do the things that they are the most passionate about.  You can see on their faces how much they love it.  I have seen this twice today, both in the eyes of someone playing piano - one who played Chopin gloriously, with all the power and joy it was meant to contain, and one who played and sang her soul's delights, turning eyes in a packed coffeehouse, and whose music never fails to amaze me with its truth.  And although these two were very different, they made me feel the same way.  Like this is enough reason to live.  This, the privilege of observing a person's deep gladness.