Goodnight friends! Almost interminable rain from watery grey skies, mostly thin and silent with a few brief rattling squalls. The sun, smothered behind layer on layer of flat, murky clouds, failed to muster anything brighter than the weak dishwater half-light of early morning. Up to 8°c on the thermometer, but a chilly, blustery wet wind drove drizzle into my face and made it feel closer to 4°. Tiny lawn flowers and weeds striving on, a few bedraggled daisies struggling to hold onto battered white petals, pink crane’s-bills bruised and trembling.
Bad sleep and bones aching, couldn’t manage to shed a leaden overcoat of fatigue. Managed fragments of admin and creative work here and there, but nothing sustained, a few brief hazy periods of disassociation as pain rose and ebbed. As the rain ebbed somewhat I came back into myself more and chatted with my girlfriend on the phone a little, though I needed another long rest afterward.
May we find rest and healing today!
Image ID: Photo of wavy-edged, toothy sow-thistle leaves stacked in staggered pairs on a stem bent by heavy droplets of water, shining like liquid mercury under grey, diffuse afternoon light.
