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August 23-24: Saturday was set aside for eBay sales. There comes a time when sound equipment that hasn’t been used in years needs to be sold in order to finance new and necessary devices. All gains are ploughed back into the land. Each effects processor and preamp embodies a history of its usage. On Sunday, following a magna-clean around the…

‘God is an intelligible sphere whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere’ (St. Bonaventure, The Soul’s Journey into God (1259)). WFH: DAY 118. 7.30 am: The clouds moved swiftly from south to north, as though fleeing from calamity. ‘There will be windfall!’: 8.15 am: A communion. 9.00 am: Studiology. This morning, I’d assemble the extracted sub-samples from the…

WFH: DAY 116. 8.15 am: Preparations for Clearing. I’m always a little anxious that the ‘webclient’ portal won’t recognise me. Not that it never has. (My neuroses are very specific.) Our marketing and admissions teams are excellent: informed, clear communicators, courteous, and professional. 10.00 am: Kick off! Participation in my capacity as a departmental advisor is rather like being a…

WFH: DAY 115. 8.00 am: A communion: The ‘A’-level debacle has evolved into the Clearing debacle, as universities now seek to perform the miracle of pouring a quart into a pint pot. Government is supposed to solve problems, not create them. Michelle Obama’s critique, yesterday, of the Trump administration could equally be applied to our own leaders’ performance. The want…

‘Be still, my soul’ (Kathrina von Schelgel (1855)). WFH: DAY 114. Last week’s ‘staycation’ was occupied with reading and ruminating, for the most part. I’d wanted to: pause and, for the first time, consider the events since March with hindsight; catch up with my studies in the fields of theology and the psychology of religion; question fundamentals and assumptions; review…

WFH: DAY 111. 8.15 am: As Michelle Obama commented recently, maintaining a personal routine during these uncertain times is crucial, not least for sustaining our own well-being. I’ve always lived by the clock and a plan. That discipline has proved a great help in recent months, particularly. It suits my temperament, and things get done. However, as importantly, I can…

WFH: DAY 110. 8.15 am: A communion. 8.45 am: The inbox’s contents could wait until tomorrow. 9.00 am: I reacquainted myself with Jones’s account of the psalm-singing spirits. They were experienced by a Dissenter named David Thomas of Pant, Carmarthenshire. One night he went into a small room adjoining his house to read Scripture and pray. The room became illuminated…