Goodnight friends! Temperature climbed again today, up to 32°c, maybe the peak for this last crescendo of summer. Loud, brittle scrape and clattering of fallen holly leaves, dried out to a stiff osseous grey and caught by a hot gasp of a breeze. Wild apples bright and glossy red, bird droppings stained blackberry purple or splattered around telltale cherry pits. Young magpies looking particularly pathetic with their greyish fledgling heads and full-size oily blue-black bodies, squalling plaintively back and forth.
Slept a little better, and balanced out the day more easily with the simple mission of taking care of myself, resting up and stretching adequately, and getting to judo. Very warm evenings are always pretty stuffy in the sports hall, but I made it through feeling okay, and a little more in tune with my body, despite the exhaustion, after feeling a little numb this week.
May we deepen our practise of gentleness and patience today!
Image ID: Photo of bright sunlight from a pale blue sky caught in the deep crimson palmately lobed leaves of an ornamental Japanese maple, lighting them up in hot hues of orange and scarlet and citrine yellow.
