I’m having a spectacularly bad day, in a spectacularly bad year, part of a spectacularly bad three year run.

I feel as if the tiniest push and my whole internal flood defences will burst.
Look what @bmay played for me. His own composition

So you can all listen.
And @other_mrs left these in my doorstep.

I am so touched.

Thank you!
I’m adding some responses to my thread as they may touch a chord with someone else feeling down.
And this from @h1llbillies
Which made both @haversham_miss and I think of Mary Oliver

Wild Geese.
And another of Mary Oliver’s

Summers Day

“Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
With your one wild and precious life?”
OK. This from the excellent @rjbarfield1 was his note of comfort & made me laugh
Lovely from @MattCarr55

“I mean, you must take living so seriously
that even at seventy, for example, you’ll plant olive trees—
and not for your children, either,
but because although you fear death you don’t believe it,
because living, I mean, weighs heavier.”
I have not come across this Armenian poet before

glli-us.org/2017/08/27/on-…
Then there is this.

I SO KNOW HOW THAT FIRST PENGUINE FELT!

And that camaraderie from the second was top.
*PENGUIN*

Where did that *e* come from?

A bit like those lbs.

Nothing to do with me!
Damn Broke the thread of poems, music and goodwill that might be a little solace to others who might be feeling down.
This family with their lockdown music is great. They’d make anyone smile.

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⚰️⚰️⚰️1014 (28 day cut off) deaths

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VACCINATIONS 💉

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480,560 doses delivered yesterday.

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12-15 a day since early January.

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Or is it just that Israel & the U.K. let the virus run out of control?

Material when it comes to unlocking the lockdown
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