Today, instead of doomscrolling I:

Skipped Morning Pages and switched to free writing to challenge my thinking on a personal challenge. With the right prompt to frame the exercise, I find it a very useful practice to break through mental blocks.
Went for a short bike ride.
Read three chapters of The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon - Daniel Farson. A great book that shares the author’s experience of the mercurial personality of an artist who lived without boundaries. A faded bookmark fell from the pages as I was reading, a notecard from the Cumberland Hotel in Bournemouth, an art deco masterpiece. My departed friend had left it in place when she returned the book to her shelf. It’s a reminder of her abiding love of art, artists and architecture.