Wednesday December 18, 2024

Goodnight friends! A warmer and mostly dry day, at least during daylight hours, something of a relief. Wan, washed-out light through layer on layer of thin cloud, windswept but seemingly endlessly replaceable. Among all the desaturated gloom the dramatically bright yellow surprise of a single celandine flower, far ahead of spring. It must have been sheltering beneath the dense little dome of cyclamen foliage and taken a chance at the first span of a few mild-seeming hours. After dark an ocean hiss of rain rose, a slow pulse and throb of noise sluiced against the windows by gusts.

Pretty poor sleep, and a heavy, exhausted haze over my thinking made worse by the constant distracted alarm buzz of pain. Stayed fairly motionless until mid-afternoon, slowly buidling strength and resolve. Managed a short walk just before night started to really close in.

May we find ways to communicate our feelings and needs clearly today, and listen to each other with open hearts!

Image ID: Photo of a single bright burnished yellow lesser celandine flower, its long stem and a few small rounded leaves reaching up through the heart-shaped variagated foliage of an ivy-leaved cyclamen.