Goodnight friends! Smooth, soft 22°c for most of the day, searing azure sky with often only the vaguest looping threadbare scraps of cloud. Thrushes with multiple berries speared on their beaks, chatter and scrabble of squirrels, buddleja swarmed by flashing and buzzing wings. More and more red glossy glimpses of ripe haws in the hedges.
Dat by day feeling slightly closer to a familiar baseline, but still spells of deep fatigue and dizziness come over me from time to time, as well as a haze of mild anhedonic depression, a kind of itchy dissatisfaction creeping in. I tried a quick 10 minute awareness of breath-type meditation for the first time in a long while, will maybe keep on for a few days at least and see if it helps recentre me. Not as hot as it has been this summer, but still pretty uncomfortable weather for judo in a stuffy sports hall. Kept a steady, even pace as best I could and got through alright.
May we find healthy ways to manage and grow through conflict today!
Image ID: Photo looking up into the dazzlingly bright green canopy of a linden tree, stippled layers of round-leafed foliage casting sharp leopard-spotted blotches of shadow onto the sunwashed trunk.
