The holiday Monday wake up temperature was about 9C/48F! Wild! In just over a week we've gone from feeling over 38C/100F to being 48F. Just another sign that autumn is approaching. Warmer temps generally appear for a week or two in September. This week is forecast to have some warmer feeling days in mid-to high 20sC (high 70s to low 80s F) with cooler overnights. I enjoy days like that. Today, though was heavily overcast all day with light rain beginning early evening and pouring rain by bedtime.
I did some inside chores today -- cleaning and getting recycling ready to take to curb. For the first time it took an effort to walk up the stairs into the front door as my brain noted that the place felt like a dark prison. All the remote living and isolating of the pandemic and the lack of a social workplace now that I'm retired, has me longing to be elsewhere doing things with people. That wouldn't have sounded so huge 18 months ago, would it? The weather today may have played with my mood a bit, too. At one point, I thought it would be great to just live in a yurt in the woods. I'm not sure how that deals with the isolation and prisoner feelings since it seems that this might make my life even more isolated <smile>. Perhaps I just need a change of pace and place. I'm still thinking of research trips for spring 2022, at present. We'll see what the next few months bring. In the meantime, there are friends I can visit and stores that provide medications and groceries, so I do have places to see and interact with people. I could drive to the cape and watch the sky and water for while, too. All of these would be therapeutic. Now I just have to get my butt in gear <grin>.
Based on the intense feeling of being jailed, I chose a song about impending freedom. There are a few covers of this song and I've chosen one for the exquisite melding of voices. Keep safe. Enjoy!
I Shall Be Released -- Cass Elliot, Joni Mitchell, & Mary Travers
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