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A slow opening up has started.

 

 

Today I was out again having tea in Bedford park.  It’s been bright and sunny with quite a lot of people out enjoying themselves. The late spring is now gathering momentum too. I am feeling a bit low again. Starting to get out again is nice but I am feeling worse when I come home.  But there are a few little glimmers of hope   

It was good talking and walking in the sunshine yesterday if nothing else. Re Depression. What I have now seems to be more reactive. If I have stuff to do it goes away sufficiently. So as things are developing and more opportunities to interact with people face to face develop that should help quite a bit. The key difference is it’s me making my own decisions re music and life in general where as before I was heavily influenced /guided for good or ill  by close friends and not making to many of my own decisions. Advice like  “live a quiet life, that will do” so as to avoid stress and anxiety. That dosent really work for me, though I could totally see their point of view in  the matter. I still feel that things won’t’ turn the corner until next year as there will still be a lot of Covid restrictions that restrict opportunities particularly for lower  level live music events. Also having a full band again would help a bit too I suppose.  Currently there is threat of an extension to lockdown again looming.  I really do hope not or at least that restrictions do not become too severe again.     

And so we wait…  

I am still managing to keep up with the creative side of music though, just about.

 


Mostly about a new tune

This is the most recent of my recordings. It’s a  jazz style instrumental with Violin. No surprise there then.

 So what else is new? Not a lot yet but there is a light in the horizon that we are slowly proceeding towards.  Where I reside it is still more like April than may weatherwise annoyingly.    I did record a jazz style track yesterday that sort of came out of nowhere but seems to have worked well in my opinion. Judge for yourself of course.

I was very anxious this morning again. I have managed to get it under control again though. Its definitely in part repressed guilt and trying to block memories and things .My inner puritan is giving me grief. 🙂. And I am having lots of dreams that mean I wake up tired. So I am doing a few comfort zone expanding things that may help. Feel the fear and do it anyway and all that? Though perhaps my comfort zone is a quite compact compared to many folks.  Lockdown has definitely done my brain in hugely as the Donald might have said. I now have a very tense neck. It may be something to do with with the posture correction exercises. Some days are OK but some are diabolical.  

There was an article about people having disturbed dreams and broken sleep since the lockdowns started and I can certainly say I have recently experienced that to a degree. I am having a fair amount of disturbed sleep and wake most mornings feeling groggy and fatigued. The weather is not helping that though.  Everything I do at present does not require leaving these 4 walls which has also had a strange effect on psyche.  The days and week since Christmas 2020 have merged in to a continuous whole where there is no difference between the week and the  weekends.
 
On the date this is written  it would have been my Friend Ralph Stephensons 75 birthday.  It feels like perhaps  now is the time to try and look forward a bit for a change.  Maybe tomorrow as the song says. 

Diana-Stone Studio.APRIL 2021        

Mayday Mayday

Love is the answer, maybe?  Or perhaps not. Another month begins and it  is time to attempt the annual reboot. So I have placed an ad for musical collaborators again. I don’y honestly think I will get too much of a response if previous attempts are anything to go by but I have to give it a try. A chink of light as the door cracks open and perhaps is enough to hint at a better tomorrow.  As I write this the sun is shining though its a bit chilly for May. Everything is slightly behind and the blossom is just about out now too.