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train landscape

by katharine eastman

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gloopy melancholy lofi keys - really quite good, but only if you get into the/its zone, which takes time, and I admit that 2 hours is probably too much to ask - not that I'm asking - it's just here if you want it

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Out walking round town this morning it was really obvious how things have suddenly got quieter - sometimes a whole street/road ahead of me would have no one in it - inside Lidl there were count-them-on-the-fingers-of-one-hand people wandering the aisles - and I did notice yesterday morning when I went out in the car that the "rush hour" wasn't much of a rush. I go out every day, and about half my days are spent with others, and half are me out alone. I have no preferences. A lifetime of just one thing would be boring - too-much-people or too-much-solitude isn't for me - I do need that mix.

Today was meant to be in the company of others. But I just wasn't in the mood for all the predictable inescapable chatter - so I used the excuse of Omicron to cry off and instead spent the day alone. But obviously not really alone - or (I can hear Robert De Niro in Heat saying this) alone but not lonely - because wonderfully I speak to far more people when I'm alone than when I'm with others. When I'm with others then those others are almost all I do speak to.

When I'm alone I speak to everyone, in I hope a natural easy uncreepy unneedy and brief way. Yesterday, in Lymington, always planned to be a solitary day, I guess I spoke to thirty people, including one bloke who was going my way along the sea wall and we chattered about the usual and after half an hour he eventually stopped off at the boatyard because he was going to buy a yacht - no I don't think that was his desperate invented excuse to dump me - in fact he was the one who'd been keenest to talk.

But strangers are the easiest aren't they. I could have endless days of strangers from now till I die and never get tired - whereas friends are tiring and require a break - and it's a fine thing to feel that strangers are better friends than your "real" friends - once you realise that, and how nice almost everyone is, and how willing people are to help you, and equally how good it feels to help them back, then that's one less thing to fear - and right now, though I'm not as frightened of Omicron as the experts want us all to be (probably just me being very naive/stupid) it's good to get these things down to manageable levels, sometimes after plenty of strong chocolate I'd put it at zero.

recorded today, photo near Romsey this month

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released December 15, 2021

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