{"id":175036,"date":"2021-07-17T20:56:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T19:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=175036"},"modified":"2021-07-17T20:56:31","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T19:56:31","slug":"friday-thoughts-mid-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2021\/07\/17\/friday-thoughts-mid-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Thoughts Mid July"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p class=\"\">Friday again and that came around very quickly. The usual routine,record&nbsp;practice and writing. And exercise of course. How well its going I am not entirely sure. Some things are improved and others are worse at times. The grand opening up is on monday and I am quite nervous about it to be honest. I would like to be out there and up and and at it but after nearly 18 months of keeping a distance it seems a bit daunting to be mixing with&nbsp; people very much again. I really have lost track of passing time. I know what day it is but no day feels any different to any other now. My mental health has taken me to a strange place now.&nbsp; I feel a very strong sense of disassociation now as if I am not really here, or that my life is some how a play that I am observing at close quarters and someone else is acting out my role in the proceedings. It&#8217;s a very weird feeling.&nbsp;<br \/>\nLooking out of my window and its very warm and bright and sunny and the world is turning very slowly.&nbsp; &nbsp;The end of this month sees a date of some personal significance to me. A milestone though if it is passed means only that the future is unwritten.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">And of course there is a song:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1089403894&amp;color=%234c5c84&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=true&amp;show_comments=false&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=false&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=\"If I Am Spared\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/if-i-am-spared\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">If I Am Spared<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&nbsp;Sometimes words are elusive and catching them before they scamper away is tricky.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s odd but when I try to write down the words in my head on paper they often just disappear. It&#8217;s more than a little frustrating. I am sure I did not have this problem before. Music pours out (good bad and indifferent) most of the time, but somehow words wait until the very moment you attempt to capture them. Suddenly they run off like squirrels up a tree or voles down a hole.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c <em>If p<\/em><em>eople bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2015&nbsp;<span class=\"authorOrTitle\">Ernest Hemingway,&nbsp;<\/span><span id=\"quote_book_link_10799\"><a class=\"authorOrTitle\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/work\/quotes\/4652599\">A Farewell to Arms<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday again and that came around very quickly. The usual routine,record&nbsp;practice and writing. And exercise of course. How well its going I am not entirely sure. Some things are improved and others are worse at times. The grand opening up is on monday and I am quite nervous about it to be honest. I would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2021\/07\/17\/friday-thoughts-mid-july\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday Thoughts Mid July<\/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":[10,60,4,3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diana_stones_songs","category-glass-cage","category-music","category-musings","category-whatever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-Jxa","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":178464,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/12\/28\/the-doldrums\/","url_meta":{"origin":175036,"position":0},"title":"The Doldrums","author":"diana Stone","date":"December 28, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The Intertropical Convergence Zone known by sailors as the doldrums or the calms because of its monotonous windless weather, or a period of being sad or bored and with no energy or enthusiasm. 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