Over Gijón
The plane from Santiago de Compostela1 to San Sebastián was almost empty. I spent the first half of the flight on a larger process, one where I was coming to terms with my complete lack of rhythm. "Do you want to see what I wrote?" she said loudly, pulling the earbud out of my left ear. Somewhere over Gijón I started to fall in love. "Someone finally described me," I thought. If only by some miracle her writing app and my music app could meet, grab coffee to go, and laugh at our shared crooked sense of rhythm. "They're so sweet," said Ableton Note2. And Pages would smile at her date and ask for a Colombian pour-over3.
1 Santiago de Compostela: The endpoint of the Camino de Santiago, one of Christianity's most important pilgrimage routes. The city's name means "Saint James of the Field of Stars."
2 Ableton Note: A mobile music composition app by Ableton, designed for capturing musical ideas on the go—the kind of app someone with rhythm would use.
3 Colombian pour-over: A manual coffee brewing method using Colombian beans. The pour-over technique emphasizes precision, clarity, and control—everything this moment of connection lacks and doesn't need.