Leaky leaky

Saturday:
Woke on my own at 6:18. Shower and brushing the teeth. Back to the tent for my morning practice. To the main house and sitting with the group. Sniffly today.
Breakfast (8am). Granola and a boiled egg. Wandered upstairs to avoid loud amplified guitar. Came back down when it seemed over. The room was still for a little while, then RF stood up and went upstairs to continue with the preparation for his departure. Not long after he quietly left out the back door. Tom had pulled the car around. An "onward and upward" fisting as the car sped away. Tom put on the turn signal in the wrong direction. Back to the tent for a little. Tai Chi at 9:30.

Curt had a Tone Clock going on the top floor and Tony was in the Hall. The idea was that half the group would go to one space, and then switch after an hour. 10:15 I went up with Curt. He put the clock through a number of tonal explorations: C, F#, Db scales, and chord tones in each. 7th chords. The hardest one was at the end. We worked through a permutation of chords where the 5th raised to the next scale degree becoming a new triad. I was stuck on trying to analyze the pattern, and so I was a bit boggled. A few minutes break, and then over to Tony's circle. We worked with sensitivity in passing notes. Some AT work. Passing glances in one direction while passing notes in the other. Passing notes with our backs to the center of the circle. Passing without looking at who we were passing to or from... and so on.

Lunch at 1. Tofu salad, Asian slaw, corn. I volunteered for cleaning. For some reason the kitchen had generated a huge pile of dishes. Perhaps some of it was prep for dinner. I did the "pre wash" phase, passing off to Chris P. A little down time, so back to my tent to rest.

At 3:15 a gathering in the "Enniagram Garden" and planning how to do the necessary work to put the house back in order. Curt walked the inner paths of the Enniagram at the beginning of the meeting. Dev asked for volunteers for various jobs. But, our first job was for the team as a whole. We carried tables and chairs back over to the "Theater" and reconfigured the dining room back into its original state. My team (myself Mark Burgess, Sandra B-C and MB) was cleaning the top two floors of the house. This amounted to a simple sweep and mop. I invented a makeshift "Italian Mop" (a rag at the end of a stick) to make things move along a little faster. We completed our job before the set end time of 6 PM. I helped reset the dining room. At 6, all hands back into the Garden and a few clapping Whiz Circulations before heading to the Hall with guitars.

We had 28 in the circle. Whizing on each scale degree of C all the way around. Various circulation patterns in C, then C Harmonic Minor, then C Lydian Dominant. We had a 3 - 1 forward pattern on the downbeats and a retro 3 + 1 on the offbeats both going at once. We also worked with the Victor Variagation 5 - 2, 3 - 1 and the one Robert had come up with (in retreat, 3, 3, 2, each group starting +1 from the last positions beginning). The team felt a bit fragmented at first, my guess was that it was because of the slightly chaotic work environment of the house cleaning, but we pulled together. A final C scale whizing to complete.

Dinner, late, but not because of the kitchen staff this time. We just ran over. We crushed in 6 to a table. Lasagna and salad. Lots of chatter. Sandra P said "There's lots of leaking going on, and I don't want to get any on me." Some discussion about how the housework went, and how some things that could have gone better could have been anticipated and planned for. My comment was that we were now having to self-organize. RF had headed for home... and this was perhaps a small preview of life back in the outside. I felt like I needed to do something practical, so I helped Pat L prep some dishes for the wash.

Back to my tent for personal practice. Then, to the Hall for our last meeting with guitars. A rock sort of piece with circulated power chords in 13/8 and then a blunt 4/4 section played by the whole ensemble. Another piece was broken up into three roles: chords, zither and melody. Thirds of the circle circulated these roles, the chords shifting between A mn and E. We ended with a complete "greeting circle" where each combination of two players exchange notes.

To the Conservatory for a closing meeting. Not much left to say. And we were all pretty wiped out. Back to the tent briefly. Brushing the teeth. The house is a-buzz with leaky leaky. Now I'm headed back to the tent to complete the day, and sleep.