07.24
Monasterio Nuestra Señora De Los Angeles / Monjas Dominicas,
Mare de Deu del Roser, 2.
Sant Cugat (08174).
Rising at 06.15.The Minx was in my dreams. Yippee!
Packing & clearing bedding.
Morning Sitting at 07.30.
08.02 A well-attended sitting.
09.40 Breakfast at 08.00. Silence visited & revisited. This was more like Silence lives here. And I believe it does.
There is little of the sense of ending that I know from the ending of courses; partly, no doubt, because The LCG Performance Project is continuing. But perhaps there is also another reason.
This Monasterio is very changed from the establishment Luciano visited some 8 years ago. It was then standing in the middle of open fields. Now, it is in the centre of an expanding suburb, construction work ongoing, with a train station nearby, hotel & shopping. Last year there were 5 religious in residence, and possible that the facility close with the transfer of the nuns to another house. Now, there are currently 25 religious, several transferred in from other closed houses, a new Mother Superior as of last week, a live tv broadcast from the church every Sunday, and the regular visits of Guitar Craft. So not quite a place-of-quiet-retreat in the country, more a vibrant Home to Silence in the midst of daily life & live television.
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10.10 A taxi has arrived & left with departing Beginners, returning to the US I…
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Two elderly nuns have passed by the window, carrying their garbage.
10.42 A final touching-base with Hernan. The Happy Gigster Medium-Wonder Wheelie is about to close…
A front door call for 11.00.
20.56 A punctual departure in the SergiMobile…
… to Barcelona Airport. A straightforward check-in & security clearance & visit to a restauranting area…
A full flight…
… arriving a little late, and hurtling into the darkness of evening in the KevinMobile…
… arriving home c. 19.15.
The Minx has baked two Christmas cakes for me I…
… to join the Christmas cake from last year…
… which is now more of an ongoing-decorative-Christmas-aspect residing on the Welsh dresser than an about-to-be-pumped-down tasty cake. A Triumvirate of wonder, delight & bliss arising.
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Home!
Yippee!
To gentle.
"The quality of our perceptions determines the quality of our judgement. Our judgement determines how we interact with the world.
How we interact with the world changes the world. So, the quality of our perceptions changes the world."
