Winter is coming. https://t.co/pZGTDA5pKE
So that was the season of light. Stooping always over it, like a schoolmaster trying to catch me out in an act of enjoyment, was the season of darkness.
I can no longer pretend that the winter is fine. I have tried to tell myself that the country is not dead, but resting and regrouping, stroking the inchoate life inside it, and that that's what is h
... See moreI now try to respond to my moods like I do weather. Day-to-day conditions shift and change, emerging from a web of mostly unseen causes. Each of us has to contend with our own local climate, with its particular norms and extremes. Some get San Diego, some get Newfoundland.
David Cain • It’s Okay to Feel Bad For No Reason

We like to imagine that it’s possible for life to be one eternal summer and that we have uniquely failed to achieve that for ourselves.