Other Work
March 2nd 2007 23:32
I haven’t been writing here for some days, between working full-time and trying to get other things done in the evenings.
I’ve always worked at other stuff, but this week has reminded me that my evenings are seldom as free as I’d like. I had to record some song accompaniments for a friend, a thing I do on a regular basis. She uses them in singing lessons with her pupils. The pay is relatively small per song, but it’s good overall.
And then the pastor of our church has asked me to do a writing job. Not from scratch, which might be easier, but an adaptation of Andrew Murray’s With Christ in the School of Prayer. The language is rather stilted in this book, and rather preachy, and my job is to bring it up to date and make it readable for people in 2007. Not too difficult a task –except that this is a full book, and they want it done by Easter. But writing is my thing, and editing other people’s stuff has never bothered me. It won’t bother Mr Murray either, since he’s long gone from this earth, and I’m sure he’d appreciate his words still being read, even if it is a la Crowl.
Another thing I do is scan music into the computer so I can transpose it up or down a key or two. I haven’t had much of this to do of late, because the music and singing teachers have all been on holiday, but it has started again – with one piece – and no doubt there’ll be more.
I had to make a note to myself during the week to remind me that first impressions can be both good and bad: making your mind up about people in the first few days isn't a good practice. Reserving judgement would be much better, and particularly in the case of the place where I’m working temporarily, a lot better.
Keeping an open mind about people is an essential, because I always jump to conclusions rapidly. And even then my conclusions need to be a lot more open-ended....not conclusions at all, but open doors to let people breathe their life out to the fullest, not in a restricted sense that I tend to hem them in with.
I’ve always worked at other stuff, but this week has reminded me that my evenings are seldom as free as I’d like. I had to record some song accompaniments for a friend, a thing I do on a regular basis. She uses them in singing lessons with her pupils. The pay is relatively small per song, but it’s good overall.
And then the pastor of our church has asked me to do a writing job. Not from scratch, which might be easier, but an adaptation of Andrew Murray’s With Christ in the School of Prayer. The language is rather stilted in this book, and rather preachy, and my job is to bring it up to date and make it readable for people in 2007. Not too difficult a task –except that this is a full book, and they want it done by Easter. But writing is my thing, and editing other people’s stuff has never bothered me. It won’t bother Mr Murray either, since he’s long gone from this earth, and I’m sure he’d appreciate his words still being read, even if it is a la Crowl.
Another thing I do is scan music into the computer so I can transpose it up or down a key or two. I haven’t had much of this to do of late, because the music and singing teachers have all been on holiday, but it has started again – with one piece – and no doubt there’ll be more.
I had to make a note to myself during the week to remind me that first impressions can be both good and bad: making your mind up about people in the first few days isn't a good practice. Reserving judgement would be much better, and particularly in the case of the place where I’m working temporarily, a lot better.
Keeping an open mind about people is an essential, because I always jump to conclusions rapidly. And even then my conclusions need to be a lot more open-ended....not conclusions at all, but open doors to let people breathe their life out to the fullest, not in a restricted sense that I tend to hem them in with.
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