Monday July 28, 2025

Goodnight friends! A grey, stuffy unpromising start again, but gradually the clouds split and began to steam away a little. Soon there were icy white, sharp-edged cumulus towers in a warm azure sky, sunbeams playing lazily across the grass. Strobing flash of butterflies, sabre-curved wings of speedy, swerving house-martins high above.

Slow to start, but felt like I gained energy hour by hour as the sun broke through and pain felt much more manageable too. My girlfriend had a day off work after a busy weekend event, so she came over and dozed with me for the afternoon. After dinner the online TTRPG group convened to brainstorm a new campaign we’re starting in a few weeks.

May we open ourselves to collaboration and community today!

Image ID: Photo of the sunlit underside of an oak leaf against a blue sky, thickly speckled with the small, dimpled brown discs of silk-button spangle wasp galls.