Unexpected Grounding

Good ink

Bat

Thank you.

I love the idea of mixing science with art, or vice versa.

A lovely read:)

Thank you MS, it seems to me that art without some science can easily be a meaningless sludge, and science without art tends towards the grey and the destructive. I think someone like Buckminster Fuller had the right mix. All the best, Josh.

seems like whatever befell you left you “bloody but unbowed” emotionally, but I hope you’re physically able to cope.  

Physically recovering from broken rib(s) and nasty bruised ribcage {please don't make me laugh, sneeze or cough :) } this following on from 2 months of very painful sciatica. I've been sleeping in batches of 1-2 hours for 3 months - but it's fairly minor compared to other health/life challenges I can think of. It's strange, it could easily have been a lot worse, but wasn't - and this engenders a kind of exquisite thankfulness. Am now doing lots of reading and piano practice whilst watching the brambles take over the quinta/small-holding. RL√   Take care yourself Paul, Josh.

Paul said it best above Josh. Sorry to learn of the accident dear poet admired.

Amazing ink. Art.

Hello CF, nice to hear from you. RL appreciated. I guess it's winter where you are, so not too hot then? Here in Portugal we've been spared the mega-heat of Italy & Greece, probably because we're 50 odd miles from the Atlantic coast and get the westerlies. In fact in the 15 years I've been here, it's been gradually getting wetter-longer winters, and cooler in Summer - which is nice since our water supply comes from a well and and borehole. Hope you're doing o.k, Josh.

Thank you T for commenting, and the RL. I'm guessing a gradually growing 'boiled-frog' frustration with trying to rebalance life was not enough of an incentive to give the clarity needed to make a focussed change. Now the option-of-one is clear. And it requires a different mindset - where habitual ways of (less-than-helpful) thinking need to be transformed to their natural habitat and so can make a postive contribution to life, rather than fanning the flames of self-sabotage. At least. that's my take on it. Take care yourself too, all the best, Josh.

Sorry to hear about your accident josh, hope you are on the mend.
Great poem by the way, silver linings and all that

Hi MM, thanks for writing.
I'm getting better, just have to move slowly and carefully.
All the best, Josh.

Dear J,

The poem is lovely. I’d never heard of a pulcan and I found that very interesting to look that up. The rhyming was particularly awesome.
As for your accident I’m really sorry to hear about that! I hope you are, if not already better, at least continuing to mend. What a to do! Terrific write. Feel better quickly please! H🌷

Dear H,
how lovely to hear from you; and RL thankyou thankyou. I'm recovering well and managed to sleep throught the night the last few days - a great blessing I can tell you after 3 months of doing endlessly interrupted 'nightshifts'.
Meanwhile I'm busy relearning the piano (after a 50 year hiatus) since I can't do any work on the quinta/small-holding (apart from watch the brambles start to take over) -- and doing lots of reading too.
I hope you are doing o.k youself - I tend to worry about DUP's 'young people and their struggles' (I hope my wild imagination is out of order on this one).
Veronika has been working on a new project and will be posting something on DUP about it in a few days I think. I think you will be intrigued by it. (my lips are sealed).
All the best, Josh.