Maybe it’s the continual news of wars on the other side of the world, the outrage in my own city, or of continued climate change threatening our long-time survival. Too much rain of late.
   Even the rising costs of everything, and stubborn interest rates, impact our mood as we teeter above a recession, but I feel it deeply.
   It is more than depression.
   I’m feeling old, not always and not insufferably so, just in the biologically natural way.
Despite the threats to us all, ageing is largely an organic process.
   Still, it is more than chronological patterns of life and cause and effect of a life lived.
   Today it might simply be the weather, so grey that you don’t even notice the clouds rolling in across the horizon.
   It’s hard to think of the better days ahead when we have been continually reminded of both the suffering and side-effects that surrounds us.
   We keep moving forward. We must persevere despite the reasons, in spite of the season.

03/10/2024                                                                                           j.g.l.