Editorial

Finding a Resonating Place

by Jean-Baptiste Duret

I was born in August, and as far as I can remember, I’ve always felt a strong resonance with this time of the year. Mostly because living in the northern hemisphere I’ve always associated it with summer, heat and holidays. During this time of the year I feel an openness and a strong desire to explore the outside, and thus it is motivating me to go and visit new places in my own country or abroad. Using my body as a resonator, it becomes an indicator of my response to my environment. When I was young, I used books to go to these distant or not so distant lands (but always seemingly unreachable) and my body was already giving me an indication of whether I would appreciate them or not. I read many books, and that’s how I discovered the first places I could resonate with; and that’s how I found the motivation to go to these lands to discover whether I would feel the same things as I once felt with my imagination.

Over the last few years, I’ve been in many different countries and I’ve discovered that many factors were influencing this resonance, and that it was not only a question of the place.

The main factor at play is ourselves of course, what kind of energy we are generating so to speak. With no desire nor direction, there is nothing to resonate with. In physics, resonance is the tendency of a system to oscillate at maximum amplitude at certain frequencies. In this, resonating would enhance our own vibrations, amplify a particular quality, or some other aspect. Would it be the same as a bird using air currents to glide in the sky effortlessly? There is always a thrust for the take off, and then all we have to do is follow the flow. Any particular movement or direction is not positive or negative in itself, it only depends on how we direct our energy and what we want, what direction we choose.

Another important factor is that the energy of a place is not static or homogeneous and it is influenced by all that live there. You can feel it especially in big cities where a lot of people are moving around at any time of the day. It is like weather patterns, always changing and shifting. For example when you are enjoying a conversation at the terrace of a cafe with a friend and suddenly a group of Italian tourists passes by. You feel the difference of the energy before, during and after (when it has become quiet again). It is a good indicator of your own energy; would you feel vibrant with the lively rhythm of their words, and would you exchange a few with them? Would you feel annoyed and sullen, irritated, glaring at them and hoping that they would notice how noisy they are? Or would you just let it go as the wind?

It’s been 4 months now that we have been creating such a dynamic place together. Wisp is always in motion, and continuously expressing different qualities and experiences. It is a reflection of the pooling of our energies, from the editors to the contributors and the readers. The continuing flow of new submissions and responses is the indicator that it is becoming one of these resonating places; one will resonate with a particular article, another one with the pictures and the paintings, and someone else with the layout. Each of us influence and support the movement.
Don’t you feel how it has become easier?
Don’t you feel how warm it feels also for those of you who are in the southern hemisphere now?

We hope you enjoy this adventure as much as we do.