08.48
A discussion over breakfast with someone relatively new to GC, following their comment earlier in the week on phenomenology - their idea in GC that music is already there before it is composed. Their question over breakfast - if it isn't played where does it go? Answer: nowhere. It stays where it is, in potential; in "eternity" rather than entering our time sequential stream. This implies there is a kind of time which bridges the two - a creative time or intentional which brings what is potential into actuality.
Now, a pile of personal meetings for me today with the Kitchen Team & Level Two.
10.58
The meeting with the Level One found it difficult to count beyond one bar of four, so we moved onto cross picking.
18.42
For lunch today we were served orange squerd.
Those who lived at the Red Lion House, or have been on any longer GC course, know what squerd is. Squerd is an indefinable mass of varying viscosity and fluidity that you know is most likely good for you. It is impossible to determine what its ingredients are, or were, prior to them becoming squerd. Very mobile squerd is served in a bowl, as if it were soup. Squerd of greater tensile strength is served on a plate. There is a considerable degree of ambiguity between the two. Squerd in a bowl may often be eaten with a fork, for example, and squerd on a plate may often be eaten with a spoon. A knife is unnecessary when squerd is served.
Some squerd is green. One member of the Kitchen Team asked if there are other colours of squerd. Some squerd is not quite orange, and tends towards brown. Some squerd is not quite green and tends towards grey. So, there is a third colour of squerd which is somewhere between green and orange.
Squerd is also sometimes a dessert. Then, we are not as confident that it is good for us, but it tastes better. Some dessert squerd of the third colour inclines more towards the red, but rarely becomes recognisably so.
21.23
Several good questions over dinner, directed towards Fernando, Hernan & myself. Anyone on the top table is available to be asked questions. Otherwise, they must be prepared to tell a joke. Anyone at the table, other than a visiting guest, is on call.
A discussion of the day between Hernan & myself is the possibility of buying a GC house in Germany. No one person has enough cash, so we are considering the possibility of forming a consortium. Probably, this venture would need input from America.
Hernan has booked this building for a six-week Guitar Circling project during the Summer, beginning on August 10th.
Four more personal meetings after dinner & now we have a group meeting for all the guitarists in the house that would like to attend.
22.43
Interesting circulations so feebly undertaken that I abandoned them. We moved on to Boogaloogachoogling and then to a sonic pleroma.
"Efficiency: the right amount of the right quality of energy, in the right place at the right time, doing what is right."
