{"id":176650,"date":"2024-02-18T19:36:20","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T19:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=176650"},"modified":"2024-02-18T19:36:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T19:36:20","slug":"a-well-of-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/02\/18\/a-well-of-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"A well of sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-light-brown-background-color has-background\">Physically I am tired, though I do sleep reasonably well.  I have very little confidence about going out socially on my own at present, (though I do have abit of social contact but really not quite enough) and it is making me feel a bit isolated. I am not too sure what to do about that really as my best laid plans don&#8217;t seem to be working at all.  I had hoped by now it would get easier but its not working that way. I suppose fundamentally we cannot change our personality type. It&#8217;s a nuisance though. At present in between the odd gig, rehearsals and writing and recording I am watching far to much you tube. I have lost it somewhere along the way.  Maybe it&#8217;s just the effect of getting a little older.  Making friends is hard. Or rather finding a good close friend that you can trust is hard. Really hard. I must make the effort somehow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-brown-background-color has-background\">   <strong>Shouting in a Bucket<\/strong>  <br>This song is 7 years old now. That is a surprise.<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\/294626559&amp;color=%23e49864&amp;auto_play=true&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-beige-background-color has-background\">Its obvious that there are a lot of inaccurate populist notions about gender\/sex built mostly on fear that are exploited on both sides (and by politicians for cheap votes) and unsophisticated people will and do fall for it. And of course it helps distract from stuff like &#8220;people in small boats&#8221; and supporting a nation with military aid that is committing war crimes&#8230;.In other news, I still have a decent following for my Music in both Russia and Ukraine according to my play stats. How inclusive am I then.  Another moan, why is it people always assume that one has never done research into anything before commenting. Perhaps because most keyboard warriors don&#8217;t perchance?<br><br><mark style=\"background-color:#722d19\" class=\"has-inline-color has-beige-color\">The suns is shining again here as I type this.   The daylight is lasting a little longer too now.<\/mark><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-off-white-background-color has-background\">I have also been putting some music on TikTok as they now distribute tracks too.  I am not sure how useful it is but the tracks do rack up a decent number of plays statistically if you post them with  a slideshow or video. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-brown-color has-medium-brown-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-61bdabfc6c20eb8753006ba8d28a6101\">Let me not to the marriage of true minds<br>Admit impediments. Love is not love<br>Which alters when it alteration finds,<br>Or bends with the remover to remove:<br>O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,<br>That looks on tempests and is never shaken;<br>It is the star to every wandering bark,<br>Whose worth\u2019s unknown, although his height be taken.<br>Love\u2019s not Time\u2019s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks<br>Within his bending sickle\u2019s compass come;<br>Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,<br>But bears it out even to the edge of doom.<br>If this be error and upon me proved,<br>I never writ, nor no man ever loved.<br><br>\u2014William Shakespeare<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-beige-background-color has-background\"><em><strong>I got into a Facebook discussion against my better judgement and am feeling a bit battered by it  to be honest.  <br><br>On Facebook the rule seems to be never  &#8220;Never let a fact get in the way&#8221;.  <br>&#8220;What larks, Pip, what larks&#8221;&nbsp;<br>I have learnt my lesson&#8230;. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;69f72389e007d&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"69f72389e007d\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default wp-lightbox-container\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"575\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"176689\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/02\/18\/a-well-of-sleep\/crotet-wet-day\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Crotet-wet-day-scaled.jpg?fit=1438%2C2560&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1438,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Lumia 530&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1465826051&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.001411&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Crotet-wet-day\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Crotet-wet-day-scaled.jpg?fit=575%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Crotet-wet-day-575x1024.jpg?resize=575%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Overcast day. 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I have very little confidence about going out socially on my own at present, (though I do have abit of social contact but really not quite enough) and it is making me feel a bit isolated. I am not too sure what to do about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/02\/18\/a-well-of-sleep\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A well of sleep<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176486,"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":[10,60,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diana_stones_songs","category-glass-cage","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20210813_202242-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1920&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-JXc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":176480,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/01\/24\/hold-fast-the-storm-will-pass\/","url_meta":{"origin":176650,"position":0},"title":"Hold Fast The Storm Will Pass","author":"diana Stone","date":"January 24, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"here's a song about madness in my dreams which is currently the case. 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