Sunday October 10, 2021

Goodnight friends! Fair and clear over most of the day, only short drifting spells of heavy leaden cloud, none resting for too long. Temperatures generally around 15°c too, so all in all fair and sweet weather, though even a warm day has that Autumn feeling, whenever even a soft gust rises it rises up with a harsh edge, the feeling of a repressed snarl in its throat as it prowls past. All of a sudden 6pm has become late, near total dark closing in before 7. I saw silent, fast-flitting shapes among dark willows that could have been bats, and a badger galloped across the dim road right in font of me, low-slung body seesawing and claws clicking on tarmac.

Sleep schedule, and the pattern of my days generally in freefall – the backlash from going out yesterday adding to the confusion, though I am glad I got out and made an effort and met new people. Being hit by long, crushing bouts of pain, left dazed and sickened. Drained.

May we find rest and healing today!