{"id":175029,"date":"2021-07-09T16:33:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T15:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=175029"},"modified":"2021-07-09T16:33:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T15:33:43","slug":"starting-from-scratch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2021\/07\/09\/starting-from-scratch\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting From Scratch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\" style=\"padding-top: 0px;\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p class=\"\">When the rules of the game change we must change or likely loose. And the rules have certainly changed.&nbsp; I am now firmly in the &#8220;one day at time day&#8221; category. No great long term plans and I will see what happens when I andf get there.&nbsp; Mentally I feel a bit more on the ball all of a sudden. Physically not so much. And the balls are all in the air at present. So if I am not at the end quite yet, what next?&nbsp; I really do feel clueless.<br \/>\nI have been keeping up on the creative side as much as possible of course. Its mostly what I do these days. I can&#8217;t do more and I rarely do less.&nbsp; It takes more effort than it used to though. A lot more effort.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">I wrote a humorous and slightly near the mark song yesterday. Dare I sing it? I am not sure. Many don&#8217;t do irony. I&nbsp; once worked with a very clever songwriter and singer. She had a&nbsp; great voice. She was also a burlesque performer and a natural comedian.&nbsp; What she had not reckoned with was that people did not get the joke and essential wrote her off a posh stripper. She was quite a wit but many didn&#8217;t get it. When she went on to try and push her songwriting career people didn&#8217;t really always want to know.&nbsp; That was a great shame and&nbsp; a major talent has been missed in my opinion.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">So I shall endeavour to make the most of&nbsp; the abilities I gave creatively as long as I am allowed. It&#8217;s been a hard year or two having lost close friends and its only in the last month or so I really felt as though I was not under a permanent cloud.&nbsp; I just woke up feeling different. Not better and not worse but different. The world is not looking quite the same.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Surprise, surprise. here&#8217;s a song. It&#8217;s got a bit of dulcima&nbsp; in the mix too and tin whistle though these are not featured. They are just working away supporting the song.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1082734438&amp;color=%234c5c84&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\">\n<p class=\"mod-reset\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Diana Stones Glasscage\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00b7<\/p>\n<p class=\"mod-reset\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"You Were Blessed Once\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/you-were-blessed-once\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You Were Blessed Once<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the rules of the game change we must change or likely loose. And the rules have certainly changed.&nbsp; I am now firmly in the &#8220;one day at time day&#8221; category. No great long term plans and I will see what happens when I andf get there.&nbsp; Mentally I feel a bit more on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2021\/07\/09\/starting-from-scratch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Starting From Scratch<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,10,60,7,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delta-ladies","category-diana_stones_songs","category-glass-cage","category-history","category-music","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-Jx3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":178147,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/10\/26\/the-nights-draw-in-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":175029,"position":0},"title":"The Nights Draw In Again","author":"diana Stone","date":"October 26, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Short days will soon be upon us again. 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