I was in the clouds this morning on my walk. I could see frozen bits of cloud flying past my face with every step. The moon was shrouded, but shining and set between the time I started and the time I finished. Lights were difficult to see at a distance. I love walking through clouds, but I don’t know if I’ve ever walked through one when it was this cold. I could see ice riming every surface, painting a delicate white on the barbed wire of the fences when my headlamp hit them.
It’s supposed to be colder tomorrow, into the negatives. I’ll be walking tomorrow for sure, but I might do a half mile if the weather feels like more than I can handle. On the other hand, I may just grab some extra insulation. I’ve got Ambrose’s artic rated Navy jacket, as well as a bunch of his gear from when he was hiking in the Sierras. Maybe I’ll grab the mitts to go over my gloves.
Today was okay. Some tears. I got my extra work time in. I realized that I would need to rearrange my schedule because I’ll be doing daily tasks on Thursday. So I only need to work early and late today and tomorrow this week, plus starting an hour early on Thursday.
I feel like I woke up a lot overnight. Every time I woke up, I got up, went to the bathroom, and then returned to bed. In bed, I spent a few moments going through a brief mantra, or prayer. Calming myself to help ease the transition back into sleep. It seemed to work, and I hope it will continue to work in the future. My therapist cautions me that what works at one time may not continue to work, so I won’t count on it. But it’s nice.
For dinner, I baked some breaded fish in the oven that I’d gotten from my neighbor. Crappie – a fish that Ambrose often told me about. The filets I got from my neighbor weren’t the dinner plate sized ones that Ambrose would tell me about, but they were delicious.
Today was the day I allow myself to get on social media, and I found myself getting kind of bored with it. It’s a time suck. It’s nice to see a bit about what’s going on with my neighbors and in my area – like a potato bar happening at the end of the month. But it’s not something that I’m excited to look at. So many opinions. News. Outrage manufacturing machine. I don’t need to put my energy into that. I have a friend who quit social media several years ago, and I’m close to quitting altogether myself.
Tomorrow I’ll start Head & Neck level 2. I’m excited to get started on a new program. The review week has definitely awakened my neck muscles, not always in comfortable ways.
I tried to record my flute playing on my phone. The microphone I purchased added these weird whistling overtones. The cellphone microphone was better, but not great. Maybe I’ll try it on the GoPro, see how that sound quality is. Or even my computer. My dad recommends recording my music as it comes to me. I don’t have any new songs yet, but I feel like they’re hovering nearby. Waiting for me to be ready to receive them.
