Music group was good. I practiced some cords on guitar. I’m still a complete noob but someone was saying I play beautifully 🤷‍♀️. I am a naturally dexterous person so I feel it’s something I could learn.

I feel this kinda deep ache inside me to play guitar and keyboard.

I have numb fingertips now.

It’s always a treat to sit here under the trees, by the pond, and in the rain. 📷📹 It’s very peaceful (because everyone else goes home)

It’s been a while since I last tended to my Micro.blog sites. I have a few broken links and other things I want to fix. But also, I’m kinda content with the messiness.

I’m still getting an arty journal going (journal.aeryn.art), I set it up a while back and then immediately abandoned it.

I got myself signed up today to a community taxi service. Hopefully I’ll be a bit more mobile soon.

Social interactions are hard 😢

Today was very busy-

  • blood test
  • walk in park
  • FaceTime with Mum
  • coffee with a friend
  • building Ikea furniture with my son
  • sorting out my new storage
  • King of the Hill
  • writing this

Also really loving my new AirPods that I got for my birthday. I was sceptical but they’re way better than I expected.

Proton Drive is poop. I’m fed up of the constant friction and sync weirdness. iCloud Drive is 1000% better and mostly reliable.

This has been a moan.

Prophecy is a guess that comes true. When it doesn’t, it’s a metaphor.

– Vir Cotto (Babylon 5) 📺

Screenshot of Fix You by Coldplay playing on my phone

Currently on repeat. One of my all time favourite songs. It has this transcendent mix of melancholy and joy. Fix You by Coldplay, from X&Y. 🎵

Another really nice thing happened today. I was brave enough and feeling ok to make it to my support centre for the first time in a couple of months. I was aiming for the art group. I bumped into a friend there and we sat in the art room and chatted for a couple of hours to catch up with things.

My family has been going through quite a tough time over recent months and for various reasons related to that I’ve hardly seen my youngest during that time. But tonight he came round for pizza and an X-Men film. It’s so nice to be with him again. He’s hilarious and cheeky. Love him so much.

I just finished watching Manifest. 📺

Wow!

I might have cried quite a few times during the series.

Fun fact. While watching the show, I experienced two very blatant synchronicities / coincidences that blew my mind when they happened. Like seriously intense and undeniable.

One was during season 1 and the other during 2. I was waiting to see if I would get more but I didn’t.

Still, such a strange experience considering the themes of the show. The second one happened during a scene featuring a tarot card.

Anyway. Great show. Poor in places. But far greater than the sum of its parts.

And a lot of very pretty actors 😮‍💨

A pond surrounded by lush green foliage and trees. A cloudy sky above.

A few moments by the pond before I go for coffee 📷

Life has been pretty tough going recently. I’m doing my best to look after myself but a lot of the time it just doesn’t seem to be enough.

All I can do is lean in to my spiritual practice. It’s the only thing keeping me sane.

I want to make art but I feel unable to do anything creative.

I’m ok.

I’m sad to see the Gluon app go. Honestly, I don’t much like the official Micro.blog app and find it’s better to just use the website. 🤷‍♀️

Screenshot of Don’t Look At Me by the Lovely Eggs playing on my phone

Look at him with his sausage roll thumbs

This album Cob Dominos is pure joy on a Saturday morning 🎵. So happy I rediscovered it. It’s been years and I remember all the lyrics! 🤩

Having just experienced a minor heat wave for the last few days, I’m really enjoying the rain outside and the feeling of freshness that it’s bringing through my open windows.

I’m drinking freshly ground black coffee and writing in my journal and creating a blog post.

It feels cozy. ☕️✍️

I’m trying Reeder for my feeds. Tho I’m still using NetNewsWire. I think it will help me to separate some feeds I follow by app, not just by folder.

Other feedy things I’m trying-

  1. Following more Twitter, Mastodon accounts
  2. Following more YouTube channels via SiftRSS (to filter out shorts)

In a wooded area. Looking up at the canopy of a horse chestnut tree. Dappled sunlight shines through onto the dirt path below.

Having a short rest under a tree in the morning heat. 📷

I just watched Children of Men (2006). I’ve been wanting to see it a long time. It was such an intense and moving film. Just brilliant. 9/10 🎥

It’s Saturday morning and I’ve already had a long weekend. I’m tired out. Worth it to spend some quality time with the oldest kid.

I love Micro.blog but sometimes it leans towards chaotic and unexpected.

Someone replied to my blog post by signing into their Bluesky account. But my reply to them was posted to my Bluesky account as a new post and not my hosted website, below their reply.

Very weird and funny. 🤷‍♀️