Thursday November 18, 2021

Goodnight friends! A short day with a kind of monumental, awe-inspiring greyness, bluish and cold, as if the shadow of something vast and heavy loomed over us. The feeling of pressure was overbearing too, I lay in bed through the whole morning, feeling like a beached whale. Managed a little exercise eventually in the afternoon, but ended up dazed again for a good few hours afterwards, not managing to get out til the afternoon.

By now we’ve come to the time of four o’clock dusk, or nearly that, so I may as well have been walking at midnight. The moon was a ghostly greenish plume of fire among the clouds, every scratching and rustling and animal cry lent a shade of portent by the dim glow.

May we find courage and self belief to help us in rebuilding ourselves today!