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08.45
DGM HQ.
Rising at 07.30.
On waking: a sense of formulating & articulating the essential characteristics of mastery. One characteristic, for example, is harmonised action: where there is a commonality in what we aim to do, our wish to do it, and our efficient functioning / operating in honouring the aim; ie there is no cognitive dissonance when serving the aim, in distinction to much of the professional life. There is no professional lying, such as doing what we know to be wrong because our job / employer / manager tells us to, or acting to favour our personal interest; eg by selling mortgages to people who have no possibility of repaying them. All this while part of our attention remains within the body; part in looking over our shoulder, impartially observing what goes on; and part in holding to our aim.
A frosty morning in the DGM Park…
Tasty cakes are being kept refrigerated in the car…
… because the ‘fridge in DGM’s crumbling office premises is employed keeping food warm.
09.19 If read in a particular way, the DU is a handbook for mastery.
10.15 Morning kitchen discussion with David at 09.45.
To Southbourne, to visit Uncle Bill.
22.03 Leaving DGM HQ at 10.25. How many download companies have a parking lot comparable to this?...
Uncle Bill…
… shows a collage of 6 photographs, of his first ‘plane crash. The crew walked away from this one. His second crash was in Germany, in October 1939. The crew were driven away from that one. Uncle is in good shape & cheerful, as ever.
To Boscombe Arcade for lunch I…
II...
The Fripp kids were brought Christmas shopping here at least 55 years ago Opposite the eatery are premises, currently empty, which were formerly a bookshop…
… and where the young Fripp c. 12 years acquired Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
Then to tea near the Lansdowne with Stan & Jackie. Stan was our drummer in (the first) The League of Gentlemen (1964). Good catchings-up & then onto coffee with John Wetton, Road Brother of later years, nearby in Littledown. My conversations with John become deeper, more insightful, as we become increasingly post-mature.
An interesting moral-maze dilemma after I bad farewell to John.
Returning to DGM arriving c. 19.15, continuing to cough with the Devil Bug given to me upon arrival at Sant Cugat. An evening of e-fury.
22.50 Computing drawing towards an end. It waits…
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