Back again after so many years

[quemadmodum]

Where to begin? It's been something like 12 years since I wrote anything but now, amid the Covid-19 epidemic, with work cut to a couple of days a week and spending most of my time out in the country, why not resurface

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[muckefuck]

Well here's a comeback I never expected to see!

At some point, you realise you know more dead people than living ones. I'm not there yet but I'm acutely aware that it's on the horizon and I'll doubtless only recognise it once it's passed. So it's always reassuring to find that someone whose fate you were uncertain of is still around.

[quemadmodum]

Yes, I just got bored with writing endlessly about myself, and then I realized that perhaps someone might be interested in what was going on.
I'm very much alive and extremely healthy. But at this time of year (Good Friday, Easter) I think a lot about how I see this world and the next. All my years of singing Bach and looking at Netherlandish religious art have made me familiar with the idea that this world is something we pass through on the way to a far better world and existence. It's not part of the religion that I was born into but it is how I have come to think...
Hope you're well too.

[muckefuck]

I'm as well as anyone in these times: healthy, employed, semi-active, and well-fed. Yesterday I actually touched another person for the first time in four weeks, so that was something.

I'm with you as far as "the world is something we pass through". What comes after is anyone's guess, but my husband's passing taught me not to fear it. (If he were still around, he'd've spent the weekend listening to religious music. In memory of him, I played the Pärt Stabat Mater.)