Two things I have learned over the years…
One is that spending most of your waking hours in mud, rain and dreariness gets old.
When your first steps of the morning are into mud, and five minutes later you’re soaked, and you haven’t seen the sun for days, well, such can get old.
Such can get you down, and it doesn’t matter where you are. This reality always pierces whichever romanticized notions of pretty landscapes.
Then, the sun shines again.
Then whatever lower feelings you may experience immersed in dreary elements become higher feelings. Compared to those who spend most of their lives inside, you feel lower than them for seeing the clouds yet you feel happier than them by seeing the sun.
And this, two, pretty much makes life outside worth it
Charles Torello 
OMG. I’m glad you’re ok. There hasn’t been a post for a while sunny rainy inside outside who cares I was afraid you’d gone off the canyon rim somewhere and California Condors were feeding off your American Express card after chewing on your Sierra Club membership for a week or you were killed in some Alabama KFC drive by shooting police can’t be bothered investigating.
Taylor Swift made it back in time for the Superbowl and to put her name in as a write in candidate for the South Carolina Primary on her money can’t buy happiness platform now resonating with American voters, mail your Donald Trump ballot in from Spain if you have to absolutely nothing is improving please do not tell America you live outside. So three things you have to say/do.
Meantime Robert Oppenheimer American Prometheus you want to read before you spend the rest of your life bucking the system all by yourself Uncle Sam gives you heautiful highways to drive on think that instead
The Man of the Hour James Conant bio parallel histories of splitting the uranium atom and the deciphering of the chlorophyll molecule structure you want to know about but please protect yourself to be ok once I went to Harvard on the subway but if it isn’t something someone at random in the Harvard yard quadrangle would talk to you about then forget it. No student loan required No more angry.
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