I really like reading.
reading is considered a cognitive process
Yes, I suppose that it is.  How do you feel it ties into cognition?
Cognition
Cognition is "the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses". It encompasses many aspects of intellectual functions and processes such as attention, the formation of knowledge, memory and working memory, judgment and evaluation, reasoning and "computation", problem solving and decision making, comprehension and production of language. Cognitive processes use existing knowledge and generate new knowledge.
The processes are analyzed from different perspectives within different contexts, notably in the fields of linguistics, anesthesia
hejira" while reading the dictionary, and was drawn to the "dangling j, like in "Aja"... it's leaving the dream, no blame".
Songs.
Mitchell has described the album as "really inspired... there is this restless feeling throughout it... The sweet loneliness of solitary travel", and has said that "I suppose a lot of people could have written a lot of my other songs, but I feel the songs on "Hejira" could only have come from me."