Tuesday December 24, 2024

Goodnight friends! An almost early spring-like taste and warmth in the air, sky full of blurred batik textures and patterns, stripes, herringbone, splashy windblown impressions of flower and leaf caught by the eye for an instant, already blushing lavender and pink at their lower edges as midday faded. Around 12°c on open ground, but taking a tumble as soon as I stepped into the shade. Bare treetops neatly crested with stippled lines of raucous crows.

A little more together and active again, walking with my girlfriend and her dog in the park cleared a little of the restive bleariness. Needed a lot of rest after that, but having beem active and having that sense of rhythm helped it feel more purposeful, gave me a sense of agency.

May we find and build places of warmth and community today!

Image ID: Photo of water shining like hammered copper with reflected sunset light, each ripple and wavelet a sliver of blackness. In the foreground three silhouetted eurasian coots float, identifiable by the slight geometric prominence of their brow shields.

Photo of a firey blood orange sunset bleeding a scarlet flare into the ragged black edge of a distant treeline, finely drawn flat lines of cloud outlined in gold along the horizon blur into violet and ochre ripples as they rise.