Jolts and Gaps
By Léonie Cooper profile image Léonie Cooper
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Jolts and Gaps

Struggling to focus today, getting a lot of “jolts” and “missing gaps”. I have to find a perspective balance between being both insular and secular and practice some mindfulness before hyper vigilance fragments focus into temporal psychosis.

Today I have committed myself to stop smoking, so maybe next week I will be able to afford to purchase a good pair of reading glasses. This morning I visited the recharge cafe and purchased a sandwich and a cup of tea, I also enjoyed a cake. I enquired about the cafe, and a woman came from the kitchen and explained that the cafe was set up as a non-profit business by three or four people, with no religious stuff mentioned. This cafe has helped calm me today, two smiles and a hi from men sitting opposite helped a lot.

With an hour to close I left the cafe and took an anxiety fuelled, impulsive walk South, rising a hill I could view Galashiels below.

On top of the Meigle Hill were three buzzing radio masts, hope they don’t turn them up I thought.

I found myself in-between Selkirk and Galashiels, somehow I'd aligned my direction with the Southern Upland Way.

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