Monday July 22, 2024

Goodnight friends! Still a tight, close feeling of damp air, a little more oppressive than yesterday despite a continuing light breeze. Spotting flecks and bunches of hard red berries, in the rowan trees, the hawthorns, even a few early raspberries in humpbacked spiny thickets.

A special mission, out to get a vaccination. A fairly painless process objectively speaking, but having to come to terms again with the tight, grim, exhausting emotional reaction I have to just about any significant medical process. I imagine its not uncommon among chronically ill people, but still demoralising. After that just a bunch of much-needed rest to recover, and some chat with friends in the evening.

May we find our place in networks of community and support today!