Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp's Diary

Thursday 07 February 2008

Bredonborough A grey day Morning

10.27

Bredonborough.

A grey day…

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Morning reading I…

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II…

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III…

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Catching up & continuing to move in: three coffee tables have been re-arranged I…

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II…

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… and a further base-layer of pain is being applied to the day bed in the Saloon.

11.43  From a Crafty…

… the GC courses and circles I attended pretty much lived and died by how well we could leave our individual and collective shit/baggage/moods out of the circle. Or the Kitchen... or when living in a room of eight for two weeks

Of relevance to the importance of the Kitchen in GC…

Q: Your father in an interview he talks about how many years he spent in the kitchen and just working at the kitchen day by day, and serving the Sheik until he became himself Sheik. Is that a tradition that first you go through the kitchen; why is the kitchen so important?

Jelaluddin: In the Mevlevis’ tradition, the training for newcomers begins in the kitchen. 

A GCIRP pledge-letter gone off. This is the last necessary step to getting this activated, the solicitor informs us.

Call from the Minx, who is packing up in Seattle. She is very pleased with The Humans’ work.

17.45  Mr. Cheese called, carried, fixed. This piece of carrying began in Romain’s Emporium of Wilton I…

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II…

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… with the third of the re-sited coffee tables.

Toothbrush holders, a small detail, a most useful fixing…

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A little more order, a little more catching up, a little more moving in; plus packing for upcoming travels to the US.

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An evening of practising ahead.

22.05  Done.

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