Goodnight friends! Around 12°c, but feeling colder. Air still damp, and faintly grey with a hint of foggy haze in the air, maybe just from the dim light. A few wan autumn crocus buds still emerging, like fragile last sputters of a fading candle. Extravagant multicoloured drifts of leaves, pink and orange and yellow and sienna. Cackle of magpies and a few single piercing notes, but mostly animal life is quiet and still.
Pretty drained, but feeling a bit more stable generally. Managed to get back to judo, though at a much slower pace, moving and thinking slow and clumsy. I knew that’s how it would go, so I relaxed into it as much as I could and paced myself on that basis.
May we find a sense of stability and sustainable consistency in our lives today!
Image ID: Photo of a leaf withering on the stem, forked and pointed lobes gone brown and crumpling in, the interior a speckled fractal of yellow and brown and pale green branching out from thin veins.
