June 14, 2018

8.00 am: A communion. 8.45 am: Thursday is my postgraduate day over the Summer period. To begin: administrations. 10.00 am: Studiology. A review. The composition entitled ‘Saul>Paul’ will henceforth be called ‘Saul and I’. The ‘Write Up the Vision …’ composition will use, as the support for writing, the paper sleeves in which the records are inserted. ‘Nomine Numine’ may be released independently of The Talking Bible suite, rather than as part of a double CD. These were among the ‘revelations’ that came to me in the early hours of June 13 (when many things besides, changed). Back to my nuclear explosion, and the development of an appropriate reverberation for the initial ‘crack’. Q: How far am I away from the explosion?:

The recording for ‘Write Up the Vision …’ will take place at the end of the next week. Then I’ll be home alone for a long weekend, and the house will otherwise be still and quiet. When conducting acoustic recordings, the environment needs to be just right.

11.30 pm: At the School I held a ‘pep’ talk with one of our former PhD students. 12.15 pm: I walked down the avenue (resplendent at this time of the year), and into town for lunch with one of our current PhD students. There’re among several members of the postgraduate cohort whom I consult in order to discern the needs of the hour and the possibilities of what could and should be done in the future. A veritable weather vane.

1.30 pm: Back to the mothership:

2.00 pm: The afternoon’s MA fine art teaching began with a Skype tutorial:

3.00 pm: Then, it was off to the Old College for the remainder of the afternoon, beginning at the old chemistry lab on the east side of the building. 5.15 pm: Job done!:

7.15 pm: I caught up on emails and responded to my ‘webmaster’s’ update on the MOT of the sites. He’s a fast and efficient worker.

Some principles and observations derived from today’s encounters and ruminations:

  • If you’ve risked openness and been exposed, your instinct will be to hide more deeply within than ever before.
  • Those who’re most apt to judge you are often least able to see inconsistencies in themselves.
  • You’re not as good as you think you are. Neither are you as bad as you think you are.
  • Why do we habitually return to the snares from which we’ve been released?
  • Awkwardness is better than estrangement.
  • A hard heart can serve as a shield to the spirit. It’s a defensive weapon of last resort.
  • Either you take control of the situation or the situation takes control of you.
  • Beware of them who think they know.

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