Chateau Belew.
Reading: Henry Bortoft "Goethe's Scientific Consciousness".
Understanding deals in wholes.
Knowing, feeling & doing are in themselves only partial experiences of a whole event.
08.32
Firstly, we are dopey.
Secondly, we recognise that we are dopey.
Thirdly, we acknowledge that we are dopey.
Fourthly, we move to address our dopiness.
Understanding is more a way of relating to what is already known, than knowing "more" about the subject / object. The distinction is qualitative, not quantitative.
Understanding addresses the unity of the subject / object.
08.45
In the morning sitting I addressed the "gift" presented to me at Guitar Craft's Tuesday night dinner in NJ.
17.32
On Saturday Toyah & I set off for London with just enough petrol in her car to make it. The first garage we passed, our local 2 miles from home, was open: a delivery had arrived that morning. So we filled up and set off, relieved. The photographer for "Hello" had invited us to dinner with his wife, a well known English actress Amanda Burton, & two of their friends. This was most generous; a wonderful final evening for the Horse & I for a while.
Laurie Small, tour manager to the stars, collected me from Chiswick on Sunday at 08.20 & delivered me with ticket plus new passport to Heathrow. An uneventful journey to Nashville. Awaiting me: the new Roland VG88 and GR33.
"Things are not as bad as they seem.
They are worse than that.
They are also better than that."
