I keep on searching for some way around all that I've been given

[sovay]

Today is not breathing room. I was woken at eight o'clock by a doctor's phone call and kept awake by pain after that. The alarm I set last night when I thought I was going to get more than three hours' sleep just went off. This is a terrible month. I am supposed to do something nice this afternoon with rushthatspeaks, but I am just tired of my body being even less endurable to be trapped inside than usual. I feel like an object lesson. I feel like a scratched record.

Late yesterday afternoon, I went walking with spatch around a loop of the Mystic River in Medford and back into Somerville. We saw swans with their cygnets and ducks with their ducklings and water lilies and slow green-silted water and glossy eddies and kids playing. He took a picture of me that I wish accurately represented my life.

Comments

[asakiyume]

I wish with all my heart that that did accurately represent your life.

[sovay]

I wish with all my heart that that did accurately represent your life.

Thank you.

[niqaeli]

I am sorry today is not breathing room, but that is a lovely photo and the walk it was taken on sounds pleasant as well.

[sovay]

I am sorry today is not breathing room, but that is a lovely photo and the walk it was taken on sounds pleasant as well.

Thank you.

It was a nice walk.

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, I'm sorry. It is a very lovely image, though.

[sovay]

Aw, I'm sorry. It is a very lovely image, though.

Thank you.

[negothick]

Call it "Dryad in Denim."

[sovay]

Call it "Dryad in Denim."

I don't write about trees nearly as much as I write about the sea, but I used to spend a significant part of every summer in them. Other seasons, too.

Thank you.

[gwynnega]

I'm sorry this month is going so badly. That is a lovely photo, though.

[sovay]

I'm sorry this month is going so badly. That is a lovely photo, though.

Thank you. I do like it. I just wish there were more trees and water and fewer phone calls about healthcare.

[labingi]

I'm sorry to hear you are struggling. Sending good thoughts your way. Thank goodness for beautiful trees!

[sovay]

I'm sorry to hear you are struggling. Sending good thoughts your way.

Thank you. They are appreciated.

Thank goodness for beautiful trees!

Amen!

[kore]

Embodiment can be fucking harsh. That is a great photo tho.

(EIGHT IN THE MORNING?)

[sovay]

Embodiment can be fucking harsh. That is a great photo tho.

Thank you.

(EIGHT IN THE MORNING?)

It's nice to be a morning person?

[cyphomandra]

The photo is lovely. I hope you get more moments that feel like it and not just look like them.

(also, best wishes for dealing with healthcare and for your country in general. I've dealt with healthcare systems in three countries, and they all have their gaps and quirks and bureaucratic malevolencies, but I read descriptions of US healthcare and the latter concept appears to be the entire point of the system.)

[sovay]

The photo is lovely. I hope you get more moments that feel like it and not just look like them.

Thank you.

(also, best wishes for dealing with healthcare and for your country in general. I've dealt with healthcare systems in three countries, and they all have their gaps and quirks and bureaucratic malevolencies, but I read descriptions of US healthcare and the latter concept appears to be the entire point of the system.)

(Very much appreciated. I have this vague feeling that it used to be more functional and less malevolent, but really at the moment it's Cthulhu.)

[ashlyme]

I associate you most with water, but you make a fine dryad.

[sovay]

I associate you most with water, but you make a fine dryad.

Thank you.