It’s a semi-sunny sunday Seattle afternoon in February and the piano slowly plays its themes in the background. There are celestial keyboard-sounding chords fading in and out. I’m half conscious, like the music that plays. I’m reflective. It’s as if we were in that movie Interstellar that came out a few years back now, and we are in some weird new time-space dimension looking out onto the world that only knows itself in three dimensions. Everything is bright and still. I could be shouting but it would not matter because I would not be heard by myself or others. Never would I have thought Matthew McConaughey and Virgin of the Birds share so much in common. But seriously, Jon Rooney shows great restraint and patience in “Laura and Jennifer, Bright in Some Soft Sky.” The ebb and flow is not rushed. It goes at a natural pace. You can sip your coffee or tea and let your mind wander throughout this meditation. And then the xylophone will smack you like a zen moment. The listener is rewarded for venturing into the depths of this part of the song. The lightness carries you away. Trepidation, resolution.