under another sun

Brain functioning a little better this morning and was able to focus well on work for a few hours. Also secured some more freelance work in a couple of weeks too, which is handy. Otherwise another nice note from Helen in Germany. More listening to the compelling  Vernon God Little , and reading Sleights of Mind -- what the neuroscience of magic reveals about our brains  which I am reading as research. Nice phone chats with Bob and Matt. A walk around the park for lunch, but still feeling light headed. Black tulips among other flowers in the walled garden. Another quiet day. Rather keen on a noisy one soon.

Still sluggish, and my brain had all the incisiveness of a block of soft butter. Little written, listening instead to Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre, which is bleakly funny as the 15 year old protagonist makes one disastrous decision after another. Delighted to receive an email from Helen in Biberach in Germany, who I learned was translating Root and Branch into German for a party who had attended the liberation day service from Biberach. It was only by googling did I learn that there had been a prison camp there where Channel Islanders were billeted held during WW2. I need to learn more about this. Lorraine on one of her fasting days, and off singing with the choir this evening. I had a bit of a Frazier fest. Reading a bit of Rilke from the Duino Elegies aloud to Lorraine in bed tonight.  She likes me reading things to her as it sends her into an untroubled sleep, however deathless the poetry.