Wednesday 14 October 2009

Isle of Lismore
More wisdom from Fripp on 9 October:

periods of Doing Nothing have usually accompanied all the major transitions in my life, including Guitar Craft & marriage; to the extent that I feel this is a necessary part of the process.

It’s very important to be able to schedule Doing Nothing from time to time, even if it rarely works out in practice. I had intended to spend most of September Doing Nothing but it ended up moderately busy, and the amount of next year I intend to spend Doing Nothing is shrinking rapidly.  Doing Nothing allows for time and space to think, appraise and plan: all of these are vital to avoid becoming stuck.

Officially I am here on Lismore Doing Nothing, but I’ve been reading and listening, and today I've been online ordering secondhand copies of out-of-print histories of Scottish music by Henry Farmer, Cedric Thorpe Davie, and Kenneth Elliott & Fred Rimmer. I’ve read them all in library copies and made notes from them, but some books (not many) need to be within reaching distance.

But the most important part of today’s Doing Nothing was cycling to the Lismore café and sitting out on the balcony with a pot of tea.