{"id":175060,"date":"2021-08-12T12:45:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T11:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=175060"},"modified":"2021-08-12T12:45:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T11:45:56","slug":"adventures-in-normality-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2021\/08\/12\/adventures-in-normality-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Normality Land"},"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=\"\">Yep. Well actually no. It&#8217;s not really normal yet, very far from it. Yesterday was a bad day it must be said.&nbsp; &nbsp;I feel a long way from everything and everyone. Disconnected. Its not getting any better either. I am sure I am not the only one that&#8217;s ever felt like this of course, but its the first time I have had this for anything but an instant.&nbsp; &nbsp;Ho hum, alas&nbsp; and alack.&nbsp; And still everything hurts randomly. Its not getting any easier at present.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/552373890&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\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" 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=\"Standing At The Edge Of Time\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/standing-at-the-edge-of-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Standing At The Edge Of Time<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\">Here&#8217;s a tune from a couple of years back. A fairly straightforward rock song.&nbsp;<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s another bit of space cadet sounding stuff lyrically though relatively straight forward musically.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_175062\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-175062\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"175062\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2021\/08\/12\/adventures-in-normality-land\/20210812_120120\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210812_120120.jpg?fit=1563%2C2361&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1563,2361\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.7&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-G950F&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1628769459&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;2.95&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.04&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Diana Stone Studi picture\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Diana Stone Studi picture &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Diana Stone Studi picture &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210812_120120.jpg?fit=604%2C912&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-175062\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210812_120120.jpg?resize=604%2C912\" alt=\"Diana Stone Studi picture \" width=\"604\" height=\"912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210812_120120.jpg?resize=678%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 678w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210812_120120.jpg?resize=199%2C300&amp;ssl=1 199w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210812_120120.jpg?resize=768%2C1160&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210812_120120.jpg?resize=1017%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1017w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210812_120120.jpg?resize=1356%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1356w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210812_120120.jpg?w=1563&amp;ssl=1 1563w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/20210812_120120.jpg?w=1208 1208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-175062\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><br \/>Diana Stone Studio picture August 2021<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4 class=\"\"><em><strong>It or what is it or why don&#8217;t you<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;<\/h4>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;<em>The silence breaks through again and suddenly the world has stopped and there is suffering everywhere but it is&nbsp; unseen from these windows.&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><em>The question comes, &#8220;You never talk about it&#8221; because to me its is an irrelevance. My identity it is but also equally it is not.&nbsp; Am I what I do are what you know about me or even what I know about myself or at least think that I do?<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><em>And also what is It, my it or your it or their it&nbsp; Actually that&#8217;s not it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; I am not me then but perhaps a projection&nbsp; or a reflection or an echo or a thought in my head&nbsp; as everyday I am me but also someone else that I dont recognise, but its is not truly a disguise.&nbsp; My&nbsp; eyes don&#8217;t change.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Existentialist cobblers. Perhaps. Discuss&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><em><br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep. Well actually no. It&#8217;s not really normal yet, very far from it. Yesterday was a bad day it must be said.&nbsp; &nbsp;I feel a long way from everything and everyone. Disconnected. Its not getting any better either. I am sure I am not the only one that&#8217;s ever felt like this of course, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2021\/08\/12\/adventures-in-normality-land\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Adventures in Normality Land<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,60,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diana_stones_songs","category-glass-cage","category-music","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-Jxy","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":867,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2010\/08\/07\/it-never-gets-any-easier\/","url_meta":{"origin":175060,"position":0},"title":"It never gets any easier","author":"diana Stone","date":"August 7, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I asked for some advice in another place. 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