I’m a bit late to the game here, but I have just discovered that in Mastodon one can enter Alt-text when posting an image. That’s wonderful for accessibility.
Well that is brief but sharp rainstorm cleared the air. I’m feeling much lighter now.
Saturday, September 10, 2022 →
Another step towards feeling better, I did a short Yoga routine on Apple Fitness+ this morning. Fatigue is still floating around and I’ll probably lie down before the day is over, but Yoga had not been on the cards until now. 🦠
Reflecting on a Year without Dad
Friday, September 9, 2022
This last Wednesday was the first anniversary of my Dad passing away. I was blessed to be at home for the last two weeks of his life, helping to look after Dad and just sitting with him. I might not have used the word blessed as I dropped everything and made quick plans to return to Britain following a sudden turn for the worse with Dad’s health. I was really unsure what I was returning to, especially on an emotional level.
I realize that am in town, only a 30 minute drive from home, for the first time in over a month. I’ll chalk that up as another win and sign that I am getting better
I remember seeing photographs of her coronation in magazines when I was young in Tibet
His Holiness the Dalai offers his Condolences for Queen Elizabeth II
I’ve been listening to BBC Radio 4 off and on through the day. As I prepare dinner this evening, Radio 4 are just starting their Friday morning programs. First on is the Shipping Forecast. I have not heard that for so many, many years. In an instant I am transported back home.
Clouds covering the moon last night.
I have had BBC Radio 4 streaming this morning, listening to people remember and reflect upon the life of Queen Elizabeth II. As she had got older I would say to my American family that it would be huge news when The Queen passed away. Now that news has come to pass, it feels all the more larger. I’m sitting with thoughts of gratitude to have been alive during her reign.
Wednesday, September 7, 2022 →
Now that I have a Mastodon account set up on OMG.LOL’s Mastodon Instance I am wondering how to use it? 🤔 Cross post from Micro.blog? Free standing? If the latter, when and what do I post there? What goes in one and what in the other?
Wednesday, September 7, 2022 →
One of those feeling a bit better and so I’ll clean the house, wash the bed sheets and freshen things up days.
After seeing @maique’s new avatar, I contacted Momo to ask if he could put together something for me. I love owls, and used to have a family of Tawny Owls living on my property in South Wales.
Now to update the few avatars that I have around the web.
Your Thursday evening rainbow 🌈
August 2022 newsletter letter
Thursday, September 1, 2022
August 2022 Hello Friend, Well if one thing could define August to me, it would be COVID. After, how long is it, two and half years since the initial breakout? After watching COVID travel around the world. Following Maui become so quiet with no visitors allowed in. Watching the vaccines being rolled out, and tensions rise as debates raged about when to ease a particular restriction or let life return to normal (will that ever be possible?
This might not be the most appropriate analogy, but COVID feels to me like someone leaving the room after letting off a silent fart. I tested negative for COVID over a week ago but I can still feel the effects of the virus in my body, fatigue being the overarching symptom. I am not well. 🦠
We watched Petite Maman a couple of nights ago. I’d describe it as magical. A meditation on grief. Through leveling the playing field, I won’t say more, it becomes an exploration of children trying to understand their elders, and parents, their children. Gently paced. A gem. 🍿
I was happy to see this this morning, nine days after testing positive for COVID. I’m still not feeling 100% - fatigued, that taste in my mouth - and so I’m pacing myself right now. However, I felt just well enough to pop out and pick some groceries this lunchtime. Small wins.
I don’t know what COVID does to coffee tastes buds? My regular taste buds are gratefully receiving and enjoying a little food. However, after a week of not wanting coffee, I brew a favourite brand and it tastes like mud water to me.
My wife’s first day and night of COVID was not good. Fevers, in and out of sleep. Day two she is looking brighter though not out of the woods yet.
Now I feel as though I am teetering on the edge. Although I have been sleeping in a separate room, indeed building, and wearing a mask when bringing food, etc to her, I have that sense of things not being quite right in my body. A couple of COVID tests feel inclusive - I would lean more towards positive - and so I wait to see what the evening and night bring. 🦠
Kundun
Saturday, August 13, 2022
Kundun, or The Presence, is one of the names that the Tibetans use for His Holiness the Dalai Lama. In 1997 Martin Scorsese directed the movie Kundun, a biographical story of the current Dalai Lama written by Melissa Mathison. I remember going to see the film a number of times when it came out. I picked up a copy of the soundtrack, composed by Philip Glass, and listened to it regularly.