{"id":176888,"date":"2024-03-16T17:36:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T17:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=176888"},"modified":"2024-03-16T17:36:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T17:36:15","slug":"artistic-burnout-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/03\/16\/artistic-burnout-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Artistic Burnout Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-beige-background-color has-background\">Sometime I wonder what I should be doing, but I just keep on keeping on as best I can. Stopping is not an option, especially so  at the moment. My head is a haunted house right now. My dreams are really strange too. Full of people I used know but havent seen for quite a while. <br>They are disturbing too. So I wake up a little troubled and perturbed.  Also I feel there is something I have forgotten to do but I can&#8217;t figure out quite what it is.  I get a lot of that these days too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background:linear-gradient(167deg,rgb(233,139,41) 0%,rgb(238,179,95) 43%)\"> <strong>World of woo<\/strong><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\/1773681429&amp;color=%23bd6f3c&amp;auto_play=false&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-text-align-justify has-beige-background-color has-background\">I guess we are just filling in time to push the fear to the back of our minds, or perhaps that&#8217;s just me. I would really like  to get a bit more light in my music as its got very dark and sad over time. I am not too sure what I could do about achieving that.  Maybe it needs an infusion of dancing rhythms?   I am looking but just not finding it right now. Indeed. Anyway I have to keep marching on regardless. So I do. <mark style=\"background-color:#eadaa6\" class=\"has-inline-color has-dark-gray-color\"><br><\/mark><br><strong>Persistence at times like this is everything. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-dates has-authors has-excerpts wp-block-rss\"><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/remember-that-time-when-you'>Remember that time when you were cosmic<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-04-25T18:26:05+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">April 25, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">Remember that time when you were cosmic by Diana Stone<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/make-free-with-me'>Make Free With Me<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-04-24T11:52:28+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">April 24, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">A song about letting go and being happy<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/maybe-faith-hope-and-charity'>Maybe Faith Hope and Charity<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-04-15T14:53:14+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">April 15, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">Maybe Faith Hope and Charity by Diana Stone<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/on-a-day-such-as-this-only'>On A Day Such As This Only Memories<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-04-05T16:32:10+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">April 5, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">On A Day Such As This Only Memories by Diana Stone<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/marching-in-lines'>Marching In Lines<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-03-30T13:40:25+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">March 30, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">A protest song sort of.<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/disappointments-and'>Disappointments and Distractions<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-03-23T20:27:58+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">March 23, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">Slightly world vibes alt pop-rock song with prog overtones<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/interference-patterns'>Interference Patterns<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-03-15T14:48:59+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">March 15, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">Violin chil-out vibe with Synths<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/false-dawns-illusion'>False Dawns Illusion<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-03-07T19:48:06+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">March 7, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">Gentle solo piano piece<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/everything-scares-me-so'>Everything Scares Me So<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-03-02T16:44:02+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">March 2, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">A song about feeling scared like so many of us are right now.<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/not-home-yet'>Not Home Yet<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-02-27T14:00:50+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">February 27, 2026<\/time> <span class=\"wp-block-rss__item-author\">by Diana Stone<\/span><div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">Nostalgic wistful theme<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/big-sticking-plaster'>Big Sticking Plaster<\/a><\/div><time 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Full of people I used know but havent seen for quite a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/03\/16\/artistic-burnout-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Artistic Burnout Time<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176900,"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":[10,4,3,17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diana_stones_songs","category-music","category-musings","category-other","category-pictures"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2010-traveling-hopefully-.jpg?fit=1701%2C883&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-K12","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41805,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2016\/05\/17\/folk-clubs-are-quite-good-fun\/","url_meta":{"origin":176888,"position":0},"title":"Folk Clubs are quite good fun","author":"diana Stone","date":"May 17, 2016","format":"status","excerpt":"I played at Waltham Abbey Folk Club last night and had a very nice time. 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