{"id":175298,"date":"2022-04-12T14:39:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T13:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=175298"},"modified":"2022-04-12T14:39:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T13:39:10","slug":"what-it-looks-like-from-here-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/04\/12\/what-it-looks-like-from-here-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"What It Looks Like From Here Right Now."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\"><\/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 col-lg-12\">\n<p class=\"\">I have musical stuff going on again in addition to my solo projects, which is good news.&nbsp; Yes regular interaction with real human beings again and I am very glad of it. I am still finding it very hard work generally to be honest after 2 years of lock down and the loss of people close to me.<br \/>\nParadoxically I have found things more difficult now that most restrictions have been lifted.&nbsp; Trying to not think about the situation in the Ukraine is hard. I have&nbsp; watched a lot of news reports and wonder where its all going to end. The world seems broken right now. I had hoped that&nbsp; being a bit busier would have kept the depression at bay, but this last week its come back suddenly with a vengeance.&nbsp; I am keeping my self as busy as I can but things are feeling very flat again.&nbsp; I have been working through the minor items on my to do list.&nbsp; Some days you just have to keep going as its worse when you stop.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Here is a solo piano tune.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1247381524&amp;color=%23ff5500&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=\"300\" 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=\"Interregnum\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/interregnum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Interregnum<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\">Its weird, I was doing quite well mentally until about a week ago. Somethings knocked me off track. Not sure what it is to be honest as in relative terms on a personal level things are not going too badly overall. Perhaps to much introspection? I suspect Putin is not going any further than Ukraine regardless of what messages are sent out from the bunker. Railways are legitimate targets in war of course&#8230;. The Russians are not using weapons that can accurately hit targets Its almost ww2 era weaponry. Nothing like Exocet&#8217;s or drones that can accurately target. With modern weapons you can almost knock down one building and leave the next door one standing. They know the weapons are totally indiscriminate so shelling and shitty old school rockets can hit anywhere. But virtue of the fact that they know they cannot do accurate strikes, they also know the damage they will do to non non-combatants. So from an ethical stance its not much different to having the station in the cross hairs IMO that is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">I don&#8217;t think there is that much spin on reporting. My guess is the Ukrainians are slaughtering the Russian troops but who ever wins there will not be much left and it will need to be rebuilt but by whom?&nbsp; &nbsp;<span class=\"\"> I am having a lot of problems with aches and pains at the moment. I suspect because I have been sitting down using the computer too much recently.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span>I am going to do a few more Facebook live videos, it makes me feel a bit less isolated. particularly at the moment as I don&#8217;t feel that good about myself right now.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have musical stuff going on again in addition to my solo projects, which is good news.&nbsp; Yes regular interaction with real human beings again and I am very glad of it. I am still finding it very hard work generally to be honest after 2 years of lock down and the loss of people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/04\/12\/what-it-looks-like-from-here-right-now\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What It Looks Like From Here Right Now.<\/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":[29,10,4,3,17,35,36,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delta-ladies-whatever","category-diana_stones_songs","category-music","category-musings","category-other","category-piano","category-piano-works","category-whatever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-JBo","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":178281,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/11\/23\/today-its-hard\/","url_meta":{"origin":175298,"position":0},"title":"Today It&#8217;s Hard","author":"diana Stone","date":"November 23, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Today it's hard to keep myself going and I will be hibernating before you know it. The walls are closing in a bit now. The news is full of doom and destruction of course. That's not helpful either. I have been doing my usual daily routine but I am feeling\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/night-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/night-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/night-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/night-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/night-scaled.jpg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":175567,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/11\/09\/november-the-next-bit\/","url_meta":{"origin":175298,"position":1},"title":"November, the next bit","author":"diana Stone","date":"November 9, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"So, its unseasonably mild at present and apparently the wettest on record. Slowly but surely I am moving out of my live music becalmed stage, as things are beginning to happen which is at least hopeful again. Here is a recent sort of Jazzy tune, It's a bit of weird\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Delta Ladies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Delta Ladies","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/delta-ladies\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":175409,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/08\/05\/keeping-on-keeping-on-spaces-in-our-heads\/","url_meta":{"origin":175298,"position":2},"title":"Keeping On Keeping On Spaces In Our Heads","author":"diana Stone","date":"August 5, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Well it's still a bit of a struggle, keeping up my level of concentration at present.\u00a0 I have been recording and writing a bit too. I hope by doing a little bit each day I will be able to get back to some reasonable level of fitness again. I do\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Delta Ladies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Delta Ladies","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/delta-ladies\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":175754,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2023\/04\/14\/sun-and-rain-and-wind-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":175298,"position":3},"title":"Sun and Rain and Wind Again.","author":"diana Stone","date":"April 14, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Wet day at the Piano again I played a retirement home last week with Orchard our trio incarnation. It was good fun though I had the feeling some of the people there were actually younger than me and it earnt me 6 Bottles of wine worth of folding stuff which\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/trees.jpg?fit=1000%2C563&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/trees.jpg?fit=1000%2C563&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/trees.jpg?fit=1000%2C563&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/trees.jpg?fit=1000%2C563&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":176149,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2023\/11\/15\/when-to-run-away-and-when-to-stand-your-ground\/","url_meta":{"origin":175298,"position":4},"title":"When To Run Away And When To Stand Your Ground","author":"diana Stone","date":"November 15, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Tricky one that. Run away is looking a pretty solid option at present. But where to? There is no further shore where the land is calm and bountiful and the weather temperate. Or if there is I haven't seen it yet. 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It's been a funny week with a lot of miscommunication and confusion. Hopefully this will pass. I have been recording in my studio or expanded broom cupboardas usual, but the muse is tricky and hard to find. 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