Good evening friends! A little drizzle overnight and a ragged patchwork sky today, deep blue and pale grey. A new round of later blooming daffodils with bright orange coronas, spectacular flashes of trembling neon flame when the clouds part at a light breeze. Spikes of ivory cherry laurel flowers starting to blossom among vinyl-glossy leaves, minute scaly yew flowers among dark needles. Endless soft burbling of birdsong swelling to unexpected crescendos.
Slept fitfully with a touch of fever, woke to a pulpy lymph node on the right of my neck and sandpapery pain down one side of my throat. Thankfully seems to have faded away over the afternoon, less a present virus and more a slight ghostly relapse – the strange bodily memory of the glandular fever that wrecked my immune system rearing its head, as it sometimes does. Being very slow and careful and gentle, a lot of relaxing and bedrest.
May we listen to each other deeply and with care and compassion today!
Image ID: Photo of a patch of yellow daffodils with long, frilled tubular orange centres, back-lit by a wash of dazzling sunlight and a little blurred as they are shaken by the wind.
