Safer at Home: 4th day plus day 46
What with one thing and another — that cup of coffee (which must nowadays be drunk with reverence, for each day it may be our last)…
Trans: A Pomerans, An Interrupted Life The Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941 – 1943, pp. 82
“… Nowadays there are hardly any accidental relationships left; you have a deep if subtly different relationship with each person, and must not be disloyal to one for the sake of the other. There are no wasted and boring minutes any longer, one has to keep learning how to take one’s rest between two deep breaths or in a five-minute chat.
“…It is a good thing from time to time to feel the emptiness and wariness in yourself for a moment or two, just to recall how things used to be and how they are now. The tree outside the house seemed a lifeless lump of timber stabbing a dull sky. But the feeling of deep unhappiness lasted for only a moment. The day seemed to start out so bleakly yesterday. But after an hour of calm and concentrated work everything was fine again.”
cited: Trans: A Pomerans, An Interrupted Life The Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941 – 1943, pp. 82-85
Nikon D750 f/8 1/30s 105mm 400 ISO edited Capture One 20
a meditative journey 
It will all turn out all right. And we will be better for it.
“‘no mud, no lotus” yet, if no lotus…more mud??????