Tuesday January 14, 2025

Goodnight friends! Warmer again, and despite continuing cool damp winds actually feeling like it. Sky marbled blue and silvery grey, an iridescent sheen of low winter sunlight across the undersides of patchy clouds. After dark the air began to congest and seal up again, the blazing pale yellow wolf moon glimpsed briefly before being snuffed out by layer of heavy purplish cumulus.

The main focus was pacing and preparing myself for judo. Still not quite feeling back to my pre-holiday level of stamina and mental acuity, even besides the general toll on my mobility and flexibility I’m feeling from not being able to stretch and move as much in the cold. I think things went acceptably well in the end, mediocre performance but some things creeping back to me.

May we find ways to communicate with honesty, kindness and clarity today!

Image ID: Photo of a fallen tree limb torn away by recent overnight winds among damp green grass, the twisted fibres of its interior vivid orange against shiny grey bark.