Goodnight friends! Holding around a steady, slightly sticky-damp 21°c all day, at first sun beat through the frothy speckles and gauzy billowing sheets of cloud. Pathways beneath the alders and willows were luxurious shady indigo, yesterday’s puddles already simmered away, dalmatian-mottled with droplets of piecrcing amber light. Gradually a pale indecisive gloom settled down, the heat thickening with that over-intimate pressure cooker feeling that sweats water from the warm air, and brief, fierce-hissing evening rains poured down.
Precautionary painkillers, warmth, and taking the day slowly in anticipation took the edge off today’s pressure changes, and generally I muddled along okay – distracted and sore, unable to settle to anything and with a lot of resting, but nothing hard to deal with.
May we find and build a sense of joy in caring thoughtfully for ourselves as well as each other today!
