A Cathedral on a Tarmac

My first thought is that we need music. Live music. We need art in spaces of boredom, in tech-heavy spots like jets, to remind us what really matters. There is something powerful about someone who has honed their craft deciding to demonstrate it, not in a concert hall or a museum, but among us, turning ordinary spaces into cathedrals. My second thought is that people are missing it. Instead of experiencing the beauty, they are frantically trying to record it. Even at close proximity, they still capture the moment (why do we need to make beauty captive?) and experience it through a screen. They miss it. And yet . . . The fact that they miss it is why I got to see the moment secondhand and turn it into a blog post. And that's the power of technology. It's all about compression. It's all about capturing moments, compressing it and then amplifying it. I'm not sure that it's a good or a bad thing. But it's ultimately the promise of technology.