Hello! This a a picture of my hammered dulcimer, which I am delighted to have. So thank you to Kathie Drinan in Walsall, who we bought it off and who shed a little tear when it went. I have assured her that it will have a good home with us, and will hopefully be heard on our next album. We have set ourselves the target of getting the album recorded and OUT by this coming Christmas - quite a feat, given the way time runs fast and there is always so much to do that defocuses our intentions.
However, we have tired of hearing ourselves bemoan this fact. I am keen to renegotiate my relationship with time, so that Brother Time and I argue with each other less. It struck me recently - as I said to Gwilym Morus - that here am I, trying to walk a path of non-violence and yet often relating to time in a combative way. You have to live a paced life for peace - as either Alex Wildwood or Ben Pink Dandelion said on the course I went to recently at Woodbrooke, with everything given its due time and attention. Getting our album finished will be a practice in this renegotiating process.
Take care,
Fiona
