Fire
sprite
prances
late at night

Sets the fields on fire
until the whole world is alight

A fibonaiku Shared with What Do You See #260 and the attached picture prompt (Klára Vernarcová @ Unsplash)

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Today I’m feeling:

Not bad. I woke up at 6.30 and just decided to get up, although after feeding the cats etc did get back into bed to read for an hour, waiting for Utopia to open.

The weather is more reasonable in the mornings and I’m feeling fairly positive about life in general.

There were a couple of points during the day when I was feeling like I could be a bit off, but not actually off. Like it was a possibility. Thankfully, that didn’t eventuate.

Health:

Physical: 7
Mental: 7

Today I’m grateful for:

A lazy day of reading. I have to get out of the habit of thinking that I didn’t really do much during the day if I spent most of my time reading. Reading is still learning, particularly when reading David Foster Wallace talking about linguistics!

The best thing about today was:

My fingers working a little better on the guitar today compared with yesterday. I still suck badly, but don’t care.

Keeping my brain busy with difficult tasks makes me feel like I can live a bit longer.

What was out of your control today and how did you handle it?

I was starting to get sleepy in the afternoon and even went back to the bedroom but managed to suck myself into reading comics that encouraged me to keep reading, so that eventually I recovered my energy and went back to my room to practice guitar for a second time today.

Something I learned today?

Ipswich are now in the relegation zone and still without a win this season after another draw yesterday against Leicester. Life is tough in the Premier League.

I also discovered that the young MMA fighter Victoria Lee, who died last year, had, as I sadly guessed, committed suicide.

I saw an interview with her sister, Angela, who also confessed that she had attempted suicide when she was a similar age.

Review your acts, Good and bad.

I brought in Amy’s clean sheets and made her bed for her, as I usually do.