-1\u00a0 bar falls 30.19\u00a0 0mph\u00a0 NW\u00a0 windchill -1 \u00a0 Samhain<\/p>\n
Full Moon of Long Nights \u00a0 \u00a0 Day 8hr 46m<\/p>\n
“Take anything and everything seriously except yourselves.” – Rudyard Kipling<\/p>\n
As I get ready for two tours today, Kipling strikes a note I need to hear more often.\u00a0 With all the news about happy people spreading the love out three degrees of separation I wondered about those of us who go through life somewhere in the muddle.\u00a0 Yes, muddle.<\/p>\n
Happiness comes to me only rarely, then for brief moments.\u00a0 I’m not usually gloomy, but I’m not usually sunny either.\u00a0 I come from a family with manic-depression, so a tendency toward the melancholy probably came with the helix.\u00a0 Melancholy is an old friend, in fact, some of my best writing ideas and creative work comes when he pays a visit.<\/p>\n
In fact, I distrust happy people to some extent.\u00a0 It always seems to me that they willfully ignore a large part of what goes on the world.\u00a0 Spoken, I know, like a guy who takes himself and his world too seriously.<\/p>\n
I am one, I am many.\u00a0 Whitman and I have our melancholy, but we also have our quiet joys, raucous moments, times of abandon.<\/p>\n
Well, this is a bit of a downer, but I’m gonna leave it in anyhow.\u00a0 How I felt this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
-1\u00a0 bar falls 30.19\u00a0 0mph\u00a0 NW\u00a0 windchill -1 \u00a0 Samhain Full Moon of Long Nights \u00a0 \u00a0 Day 8hr 46m “Take anything and everything seriously except yourselves.” – Rudyard Kipling As I get ready for two tours today, Kipling strikes a note I need to hear more often.\u00a0 With all the news about happy people … Continue reading Happiness is …<\/span>