Sketch a day - day 65/365

With less than an hour to go until tomorrow, somehow the drawing manages to happen today.

Time is weird.

How can 65 days have gone by since beginning this slightly ridiculous quest to do a drawing a day? Its flown. The year is rushing by. Only 300 more drawings to go.

Time is also not weird.

Time is true and steady. It's just us, who forget to keep routed and breathing and noticing, who mistake it for the weirdo. Time says ‘I’m not weird! You so are’.

And who can argue with time?

Not me. Not when there's now less than an hour to go before this is tomorrow and all the alarm bells will start going off in heaven like they do when Peter doesn't die in ‘A Matter of Life and Death’*

Anyway, tonight time went funny because I needed to do an emergency walk up to Micklethwaite and back. Because the temperatures have gone up. And it's been damp and the toads might move on such a night. So off I went to look for them. Just in case.

But there were no toads tonight, as it happens.

But I did get a view from the top of the hill, looking past a telegraph pole down towards Bradford in the distance.

I think.

I got quite disorientated. And my sense of direction is terrible. Having ADHD means I have no idea what time it is and having dyspraxia means I rarely quite know where I am. It's like being a cork bobbing in the sea.

But sometimes it's also very beautiful.

And tonight was one of those nights.

Time and place not quite clear, a bit smudged. Just the beautiful twinkling of the distant town. And the telegraph pole looking strong and full of wires and reflections. And the dry stone wall looking all solid and knarled and excellent.

It was a good moment.

And that's the news.

*this is a reference to a Powell and Pressburger film which you need to see if you haven't seen it. I mean I am not usually bossy about such things. What do I know? And more importantly, what do I know, about what you know? and what you like? So how would I know what to recommend? None the less I make an exception for all Powell and Pressburger films. Especially MoL&D. Which is wonderful. And you won't regret deciding to see it right now. So go do that. Go watch it.