{"id":176120,"date":"2023-10-18T18:53:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T17:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=176120"},"modified":"2023-10-18T18:53:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T17:53:42","slug":"a-recent-tune-for-this-time-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2023\/10\/18\/a-recent-tune-for-this-time-of-year\/","title":{"rendered":"A Recent Tune for this time of year."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have just finished this track.  Its low key and rather wistful. It is also very much a reflection of my State of mind right now. This year has been interesting and there have been a few challenges along the way so far. I feel a bit rocked by becoming aware of my own fragility in body and mind as time passes and recent bother with my eyes has brought that into focus (bad pun time).<br><br> We have of course another war to weep and morn for and very little hope for its resolution. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-rounded\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"875\" data-attachment-id=\"176126\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2023\/10\/18\/a-recent-tune-for-this-time-of-year\/keys-at-home\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/keys-at-home-scaled.jpg?fit=1767%2C2560&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1767,2560\" 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;1690037385&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;2.95&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;500&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.058823529411765&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"keys-at-home\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/keys-at-home-scaled.jpg?fit=604%2C875&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/keys-at-home-707x1024.jpg?resize=604%2C875&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Diana Stone in the studio at the keys.\" class=\"wp-image-176126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/keys-at-home-scaled.jpg?resize=707%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 707w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/keys-at-home-scaled.jpg?resize=207%2C300&amp;ssl=1 207w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/keys-at-home-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1113&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/keys-at-home-scaled.jpg?resize=1060%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1060w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/keys-at-home-scaled.jpg?resize=1414%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1414w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/keys-at-home-scaled.jpg?w=1767&amp;ssl=1 1767w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/keys-at-home-scaled.jpg?w=1208 1208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1643709936&#038;color=%23e49864&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/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;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\" title=\"Diana Stones Glasscage\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/just-not-ready-yet\" title=\"Just Not Ready Yet\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Just Not Ready Yet<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<p>As I write we are having fairly heavy rainfall here  and the weathers turned a lot colder quickly. That turns up the gloom level just a little too much for comfort.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just finished this track. Its low key and rather wistful. It is also very much a reflection of my State of mind right now. This year has been interesting and there have been a few challenges along the way so far. I feel a bit rocked by becoming aware of my own fragility &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2023\/10\/18\/a-recent-tune-for-this-time-of-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Recent Tune for this time of year.<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-JOE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":178337,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/11\/25\/your-mind-opened-up-my-doors\/","url_meta":{"origin":176120,"position":0},"title":"Your Mind Opened Up My Doors","author":"diana Stone","date":"November 25, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Sometimes you have a revelation and you can't keep it to yourself so you end up singing about about it almost ecstatically. 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