I heard the dawn coming from a damaged field recording
After six months of reaccustoming myself to regular driving, I finally did something really dangerous while in the car: at an interminable red light in stop-and-go traffic that had been going at an average rate of trench warfare, I looked at the pulp novel lying out of my computer bag in the passenger seat with my hat and gloves and didn't notice when the light changed. Nothing happened. No one honked, revved, rear-ended me, I didn't spring forward into the crosswalk and hit a pedestrian or even have to catch up to the car in front of me. Either the change in lights subliminally registered with me or my paranoia was perfectly timed. But I have been since the age of literacy so easily absorbed into reading that I can not hear my own name spoken and it should never have crossed my mind that it was safe even to glance at a printed page while behind a wheel unless parked. I gather I have reached a level of comfort with driving where I can relax enough to do really stupid things, which feels less like an accomplishment than I suppose it should.
In other news, my doctor's appointment this afternoon yielded a pneumococcal vaccine and I am enjoying Crescent's By the Roads and the Fields (2003), which reminds me of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ashlyme's writing. I am profoundly tired.
In other news, my doctor's appointment this afternoon yielded a pneumococcal vaccine and I am enjoying Crescent's By the Roads and the Fields (2003), which reminds me of
ashlyme's writing. I am profoundly tired.
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Thanks again for introducing me to Crescent. I'll give the whole album a listen in the morning. "Spring" feels frail but vital too - exactly the song I need tonight.
*Hugs for tiredness*
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Thank you! It really was a non-accident in that all that happened was I realized I hadn't seen the light change, but I should not have put myself in the position of not being able to notice.
Thanks again for introducing me to Crescent. I'll give the whole album a listen in the morning. "Spring" feels frail but vital too - exactly the song I need tonight.
I'm so glad. You're welcome. "Spring" is my favorite so far, although "New Leaves" and the sort of triptych formed by "Mimosa," "River Debris," and "Mica" have registered strongly. Some of their sound reminds me of PJ Harvey in the second half of the '90's, too. "Structure and Form" goes on for so long it becomes an incantation: columns, balconies, staircases and fruit trees, ashtrays, dance halls, cinemas, hospitals, railways and flooded fields . . .
*hugs*
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Thank you! It's become much more comfortable now that it no longer sends my back into regular spasms!
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I resemble this statement!
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I think it's a healthy way to be! Just not while driving!
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I didn't know that! I've never had one before.
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I looked and I had them in 2018 and 2022, with another recommended for this year. However, I was told at the last shot I needed to be re-upped in 5 years...need to check on that.
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I gather I have reached a level of comfort with driving where I can relax enough to do really stupid things, which feels less like an accomplishment than I suppose it should. --I'm laughing.
Hurray for a pneumococcal vaccine, and hurray for something good to read! (Boo profound tiredness, but maybe just maybe tonight will be a night when you can sleep)