The answer

My dearest friend and confidante is gravely ill and my concern for her is having a weird effect: it’s making me sensitive to all kinds of exaggerated anxieties and sadnesses which are focussed on my family.

I’m not usually like that.

I expect it will pass.

And there’s a helpful quote from Rohinton Mistry which I found in that book I recently read twice in one week, Kate Gross’s Late Fragments. It especially speaks to my condition:

To that end, I am having pancakes for breakfast.

And I’m enjoying photographs of the girls in Colorado (come on, I haven’t had pics of the grandchildren on here for ages):

 

And Dave is going out for the day which means I can get on with the rewrite of episode one of the screenplay undisturbed. Yay!

 

Photographs by @isaach