Goodnight friends! Gloomier again than yesterday, and cooler too, overnight felt positively chilling compared to recent summery weeks. Deep, heavy iron grey lid of cloud with only occasional blue slivers. Afternoon speckling coalescing out of the humidity slowly became loose, noisy showers. Birds, already quieting with the passing of the great flush of mating and fledging, were especially hushed, while squirrels become more visible, leaping and scrabbling along fencetops.
Heavy PEM day, greatly exacerbated by the dour wet weather. A few days ago a study that I think I might have contributed a saliva sample to released its results, finding several distinct genetic markers specifc to people with ME/CFS. Maybe vindication in a way, or perhaps it should feel that way, but for some reason it just makes me feel a little depressed.
May we focus our energy and emotions towards the things we can affect today!
Image ID: Photo of a field bindweed flower among wild grasses, its barely lilac-tinted pleated white trumpet is slightly tattered along the edge with a ring of smoky purple-tipped stamens within, and heavily pleated as it folds in from a conical shape to a five-lobed star, a step in the process of preparing to close tight against the rain.
