Goodnight friends! Returning to a more or less unbroken, depthless and hourless limp grey sky – no morning or afternoon, only the slow smother of yet darker, grimier greys. Air and earth both half-saturated, pinpricks of unfalling rain fizz against my face, a constant ragged outbreath of brown water roiling through sluice gates competing with traffic hiss.
Drained and numbed a little by the damp, yet at the same time feeling an irrational struggle within myself against accepting the effects of wintery damp, a petulant, pleading adolescent urge to ‘prove’ I can work and exercise as much as if it were June, despite feeling the obvious functional limitations in my body.
May we find ourselves buoyed by a deep sense of determination and self-belief today!
