A check-in of sorts, I suppose...
Thinking about the term "quodlibet"
- "as you please", as in the JSBach family revels wherein eveybody contributed musically to family celebrations. Bach wrote several quodlibets.
- "any question whatever" from medieval scholarship. A scholar would sit (supported by two or three others who would frame/organize the process) for any two or three questions from students. Said thinker would then take the questions away for a week or two and then return to respond in the way he thought best.
Thankful for: a Mom who sends thoughtful (and WAY cool) anniversary gifts (a set of 6 metal, stemmed goblets with engraving) which undoubtedly have a story behind them. Cold beverages within invariably produce large irridecent beads of moisture, which have so different a character on metal from their appearance on glass.
Also for the wonderful response from folks offering to help with my research and dissertation. I'll put a link up when I have it better organized for introduction.
Also for having to choose between myriad wonderful options in so many cases, rather than the least among multiple evils.
Also for friends and dear ones who not only ask how things are but have the generosity to really hear a full response.
Struggling with: how to get things in functional proportion.
Hmmm...
Back to the yoga of digesting and creating text.
| posted by Unknown @ 6/14/2004 05:58:00 PM
Thinking about the term "quodlibet"
- "as you please", as in the JSBach family revels wherein eveybody contributed musically to family celebrations. Bach wrote several quodlibets.
- "any question whatever" from medieval scholarship. A scholar would sit (supported by two or three others who would frame/organize the process) for any two or three questions from students. Said thinker would then take the questions away for a week or two and then return to respond in the way he thought best.
Thankful for: a Mom who sends thoughtful (and WAY cool) anniversary gifts (a set of 6 metal, stemmed goblets with engraving) which undoubtedly have a story behind them. Cold beverages within invariably produce large irridecent beads of moisture, which have so different a character on metal from their appearance on glass.
Also for the wonderful response from folks offering to help with my research and dissertation. I'll put a link up when I have it better organized for introduction.
Also for having to choose between myriad wonderful options in so many cases, rather than the least among multiple evils.
Also for friends and dear ones who not only ask how things are but have the generosity to really hear a full response.
Struggling with: how to get things in functional proportion.
Hmmm...
Back to the yoga of digesting and creating text.
| posted by Unknown @ 6/14/2004 05:58:00 PM
I find my previous habits repeated, in that I schedule two hours a day for writing and get one at most, and often none – swept away by the demands of other responsibilities. This will have to change somehow but I haven’t literal room for my own office/sacred space and lack financial leeway to work fewer hours. My mind turns again to ways to get the Healing Friction project (and thereby my dissertation) funded.
I feel excited to be begun officially, discouraged by the nominal gathering of my tech support team and encouraged by the enthusiastic approval of the Beamish Council, providing the non-profit space in which to work and raise funds. Any ideas?
I realize I have exhausted my own technical expertise and reserves of both money and time. This will require 1) a pairing down of objective, 2) a response from helpful others, 3) a working within bounds (finally) rather than endlessly trying to expand my reach, or some combination of all three.
More later. Huge thanks to folks reading this blog and commenting.
| posted by Unknown @ 6/10/2004 03:15:00 PM
I feel excited to be begun officially, discouraged by the nominal gathering of my tech support team and encouraged by the enthusiastic approval of the Beamish Council, providing the non-profit space in which to work and raise funds. Any ideas?
I realize I have exhausted my own technical expertise and reserves of both money and time. This will require 1) a pairing down of objective, 2) a response from helpful others, 3) a working within bounds (finally) rather than endlessly trying to expand my reach, or some combination of all three.
More later. Huge thanks to folks reading this blog and commenting.
| posted by Unknown @ 6/10/2004 03:15:00 PM
