Thursday February 1, 2023

Goodnight friends! A little warmer and drier, though high enough wind to give a scouring feeling to the air. Definitely clearer with clouds all banded and speckled, gusted out broad and thin, a spectacular canvas of mixed hues come sunset. Crows jostle and swoop at each other, springy and buoyant on bare branches. Vivid green feathery sprigs of early cow-parsley among drifts of dead grey leaves.

A nice slow-going afternoon of small household tasks, mildly productive but not too taxing. The worst specific aches and pains from roughhousing are already seeming to disperse and I’m mainly just left with a heavy but predictable malaise, slowly dissipating as much as it ever does.

May we find rest and recovery today!