So many things demand our attention in this fast-paced age that we’re tempted to just passively watch rather than expend energy to actively observe, not just to see but to truly behold. John Keats ...

Some years ago, I heard a nightingale sing in a patch of scrub behind a Tesco megastore on the outskirts of Ipswich.

It can come over you in an instant: a sound, a look, a note, an image; a work of art that captures your mind and your heart, pulls you out of the humdrum of the everyday, and gives you a glimpse of ...