Fascination.
The butterfly is fascinated by light, which often leads to its loss. Let’s put things into perspective because the life of butterflies is one of the shortest.
This does not prevent some, however fascinated by butterflies, from killing them for the sole pleasure of keeping them behind glass or in a transparent box…
Fascination is a kind of hypnosis. To be fascinated is to not manage to divert one’s attention from an object, a living being, a landscape, a sound…
And since this fascination is also a kind of ecstasy, it causes an avalanche of neuro-transmitters and hormones which short-circuits resonance and this famous free will so dear to humans but which ultimately they practically never use, fascinated as they are by what comes from the reasoning of others, or even from totally artificial intelligence.
So try to be amazed instead. The marvelous is pure pleasure! It doesn’t block your intellect, it boosts it!
Today I have invited the brilliant soprano Charlotte Hoather for tea. She’s British, so I know she likes tea. Me, I’ll stick with coffee. I somehow got directed to Charlotte’s blog a number of years ago, when she was first enrolled in the Royal College of Music in the Master’s Program. It was a wonderful blunder because I’ve been enjoying her voice and her professional growth ever since.
My older brother and I used to watch Disney Sing-a-Long videos from about the age of two, and I started singing when I was about two, at least that’s what I used to call it, I would watch Disney Sing-a-Long and Barney with my brother. But I started singing on stage from the…
You dream, I photographe it ! 