The Thing about Vinyl

is the sound may or may not be better. But it certainly seems better and perhaps that's because there is more ceremony, more care, more ritual to the playing of a vinyl record that the leaping through a digital play-list. More insistence on listening as the band would have preferred, too. You have to slow down a bit, you're probably putting work aside and maybe you're actually listening to the music.

It's true of coffee you personally have taken from bean to brew. Of a casserole where the potatoes are from your garden. Of a jumper you knitted yourself. 

The slow of life is vital. Sometimes in the search for efficiency and convenience we just leave the fast; that's OK for a quick buzz but ultimately it's a little unsatisfying and just leaves us seeking the next and bigger bit of speed. Which surely means it's all over too quickly.