There have been no posts for a while in this thread (or any others). Here is the reason why, I conjecture. 2016 has brought upon me (careful and significant choice of preposition) a monumental amount of work related to health services and medical education. Simultaneously the health of my parents has been an abiding concern, requiring application, thought, adjustments, creativity, love. Among all these preoccupations, music and in particular the changes chronicled here have not been able to engender emotional energy – the emotional energy required to engage with translation of feeling into short bursts of analytical or soul-inspired verbal expression. Indeed, the emotional space to react to a key-related experience has been constrained by the other demands on my psyche. I don’t remember actively turning from the emotional import of musical changes experienced in the car, concert hall or home; I do remember feeling ‘there it goes again’ sometimes, but there was never sufficient focus or head-space to give it meaning.

This changed – happily! – about 3 weeks into a holiday in August. Enough emotional space had been gained in that time of altered rhythm for me to hear, feel and think again about my musical tonal journey. I must learn the lesson that these 5 months might teach me about balance.  But read on……