08.10
The first van is close to leaving. A millage of Crafties are preparing to get on & be driven away. Breakfast was set for them at 07.30. For those not leaving immediately there was a morning sitting for those who wished to attend. They are staying for the cleaning & tidying of the seminary, to leave it in good order: this is part of the completion of our courses & visit.
09.39
Attitudes. Attitudes.
The attitude that life owes us something, if not everything, encourages life to thwart our endeavours. This life may not provide justice, but it is fairer than we might like it to be. When we act as we like, we get what we want; but not what we need.
10.53
Acts of heroism in the packing department. Gifts of dulce de leche, fine Argentinian wine, a book, plus more besides, have overfilled the Happy Gigster's Travelling Compendia. The Team remaining behind to clean the house are preparing lunch for us at noon. Then Hernan & I are off to visit a club in Buenos Aires which Hernan feels would be suitable for Crimson.
So, what of this course?
This is beginning Guitar Craft's third 7 year life cycle. The first period was one of expansion, the second a kind of Level Two. My own participation was limited by nearly seven years of litigation. But, had that not happened, I would have found another way for Crafties to become less reliant upon me, and more able to work from their own initiative. Now, this course coinciding with the 15th. anniversary of the first, there is a sense that something is beginning again.
When we arrived here last week, I mentioned to Hernan a dream on my first night in Sherborne House. The dream has never left me. My Mother & Auntie Evie had driven me to to Sherborne, Gloucestershire, from Wimborne, Dorset, via the Polly Tea Rooms in Marlborough. My Mother was horrified to leave her son in the Spartan dormitory which housed myself & 5 other men for the next 10 months. On that first night, before the beginning of the course & the arrival of the other men, I had the dormitory to myself. Of the dream: I have never forgotten it, nor quite understood it, and continue to recall it.
One interpretive (beginning) lesson from the dream is that a third Guitar Circle is necessary, in Europe. Hernan has a feel for this, and has already been holding Summer projects in Germany. The Nunez family are in Kiel, so it makes sense that anyone who wishes to extend their personal work to involvement in an ongoing Guitar Circle community, this is a beginning point. In the next room Hernan is presently discussing the idea with several interested young men.
But now: to close down the computer & pack it into the computer knapsack given to me by my Sister, hoping not to crush Bill Forth's chocolates & Hernan's Mother's dulce de leche cakes.
