I am in to my studies. It has been some time since I have sat down with a text book and started to compile a set of notes, but it was like riding a bike. I fell right into the rhythm and actually enjoyed the exercise. The day started with the arrival of a handbook on Western Plain Chant, a 629 page volume of everything important to know and understand about chant from the Roman Catholic church. You know it has Gregorian chant and that's how I know it too. But it seems there is more to it, much more. I am just finishing page seven and have spent about five hours today reading and note taking. I must be a little rusty since it is taking quite a bit of time to get through the material and outline. It is a good thing I have a head start. I will have to develop a shorthand. At any rate I am enjoying it and hungry for the knowledge and how I can apply the form of what I am learning to other traditions' chants. It is already making itself apparent.
It was another beautiful day and I am making my entry short this evening so I can go for an evening stroll along the Shannon before I retire. Tomorrow I will head to the Limerick farmers' market with my room mate. I have not mentioned room mates previously because I had not seen my rooms and thought perhaps they were a figment of my imagination. I was told I have two, and so when I met one, a darling young woman from France who is here for the summer doing an engineering internship in Limerick, I still though there was one more however illusory. Not so, turns out Mary has been the only other person living here these past two weeks until last evening when a MA student arrived from Galway to spent a final week finishing her dissertation. I believe her name is Sinead (Shin ayd). She is also a sweet young woman and will be heading to England to work when she is finished here. So now I really do have two roommates, but for a moment I thought I had three!
Off I go for a walk and hope that your evening is also a lovely one.
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