As a personal practise, I have divided my days into sections, each starting with meditation and resembling - albeit loosely - the Offices of the Anglican Church and Buddhist traditions.

The day’s sections proceed according to typical routines whether they include work in the gardens, tennis and workouts, rehearsal, correspondences, composing, friends, etc., but each section begins with meditation.

The Anglican canonical hour is called “compline,” an English word derived from the Latin “completorium,” indicating the completion of the working day and is sung before going to sleep.

Locklair’s “Remembrance” is a setting of the Beatitudes which are eight blessings found in the Sermon on the Mount narrative...which I find so fitting to this time of day when all that is dependent on me has stopped; when I am no longer the caregiver of the world with which I/we have been entrusted, but now I am the one being taken care of.

There is one primary “compline” to each day - but there are many smaller “complines” that can occur at the close of any activity where we cease our work related to that activity and rest our hands and minds in the knowledge of a job well done.

These are sufficient to the day which, in itself, is a hopeful promise leading us directly to restart the cycle anew with work, or “matins”, once restarted or awakened.

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