How’s your summer going so far?
It’s crazy hot here in Spain! Where I live there are so many crickets, you might know how they “sing” in the South when it gets hot! 🌞 And have you ever heard Japanese crickets? They sound as if they were amplified for a hard rock gig, they put European ones to shame! 😄
Crickets always make me smile. Back in school, I had to learn the very famous — and very mean! — French poem “The Cricket And The Ant” by heart. I always sympathised with the cricket, and thought that the ant was a bit of an arsehole! The future singer in me was already getting the general vibe around this largely undervalued profession!
Here it comes, now tell me if you don’t agree with me!
The cricket having sung
All summer long,
Found herself most destitute
When the north wind blew :
Not even one little morsel
Of fly or worm.
She went to plea her famish
To her neighbour the ant,
Begging her to lend her
A little grain so she’d survive
Until the new season.
“I shall pay you, she told her,
Before the harvest, animal’s oath,
Interest and principal.”
The ant is not a lender :
This is the least of her faults.
“What were you doing during the warm season?
She asked the borrower.
— Night and day, to anyone
I sang, please you if it may.
— You sang? I’m delighted :
Well, dance now.”
So much of my work is dedicated to spreading the love and appreciation of singing.
In a world full of dull, moralistic ants, be a happy, crazy, loud, unapologetic, highly skilled, artistically refined, sun-worshipping cricket! ❤️