Day 52: I learned Variation III at home in the air conditioning -- oops, I mean on the piano. The three-part manual "sinfonia" above the passacaglia theme was so technically interwoven that I couldn't separate out the Left Hand. So I just played the variation HT 32 times.
Before you ask, no, I don't have OCD. I just find Dupre's method effective and efficient, and I believe it saves time in the long run.
Today Karen, my CAREpath nurse, asked if I had ever tried any visualisation (I guess as an aid to relaxing). I didn't mention the air practicing, but I did tell her about the Sacred Heart picture at St. Patrick's and St. Leo's, and how I imagined the rays -- red (for Jesus?) and blue (for Mary?) -- shining, like gentle sunbeams, from His heart into my body during radiation treatment.
This visualisation is quite comforting when I am inside the TOMO machine. Instead of listening to the machine I sing a verse of Silent Night in my head: "...Love's pure light....radiant beams...". A bit ridiculous, maybe, but it helps.
"Unless you are willing to do the ridiculous, God will not do the miraculous." (Mother Angelica, EWTN)
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