9.00 am: Waiting at the pharmacy:
On the way down Penglais Hill, I could almost lean into the wind like Marcel Marceau. Woah! 9.30 am: Dedication on medication: I completed the updates of my CV and profile sites before building a page for The Bible in Translation release on my personal website. Time invested in these activities is never wasted. (In the background, I listened to a BBC Chorale Evensong broadcast. One for Epiphany. In Anglicanism, and some other Christian traditions, Christmas goes on well after the bauble-decked pines have been felled. 12.30 pm: Respite.
After lunch, I fed my chorale evensong addiction further with a broadcast from King’s College Chapel, London. The chapel is situated on the first floor of the King’s College building, on the Strand. I discovered it while presenting a paper at a conference there, having walked to the end of an otherwise unexceptional corridor of the Religious and Theological Studies Department. The experience was as surprising as it was sublimely surreal — like walking into the Tardis for the first time:
2.15 pm: The slow process of extracting sample sound clips from The Bible in Translation album began. The aim was to create an indicative content, or a set of ‘teasers’, in common parlance. 4.00 pm: Complete:
Respite. 4.20 pm: I watched several YouTube videos about learning braille. I’m looking for an opening into The Aural Bible III project:
From the study window, facing the front of the house. (Maybe the answer has always been staring me in the face.):
To the sighted, braille appears elegant, minimal, and pure. To the sight-impaired, it’s an entirely tactile experience. (Reading by touch.) The reader uses two hands: one to feel, the other to direct (not unlike in guitar playing). In braille, numbers and letters share the same signs (as in the Hebrew language). There’s much to tease out, here.
6.15 pm: Practise session 1. 7.15 pm: Studiology. A trussing up and test drive of Pedalboard V, and an assembly of a new version of an old array.
A voice inside me said: ‘Nothing is full’.