Some of us feel dreary on dark days. I do not remember the name of the medical condition that my Dad had, I have, and now affects my son, but I know its effects. Medication or exposure to bright light can mask it some but not really eliminate it. Only a bright sunny day or bright light environment can really help alleviate it.

Like nature in a cold wintry climate, like Wisconsin, we need to adjust to it. Knowing dark dreary days are coming we need to prepare, like we do by using grow fluorescent lights for the GP box in the fall and winter growing season. A bear can just sleep through the winter but we, with this condition to dreary days, cannot sleep it away, although some days this certainly is appealing.

No, like the Kale or brave persons like Dawn we must face up to it, take in the dreary days, keep our spirits good and realize that they will pass. A close family member once, when asked for their top three priorities of life, said ‘survival’. Yes, at some dark moments survival, doing what we know but cannot feel is the right thing to do and is all we can do. The kale plants outside do not die in the winter but they survive and grow again when the light and heat return.

Tomorrow morning I am going to court to be a possible character witness for a friend who, although this person has does no harm to any property or person, faces jail instead of the treatment the person now enjoys. The person’s past misdeeds are the reason the person is now facing more punishment. In the legal justice system there is no forgivingness, even when the only harm being done is to the person being punished.

The legal justice system is sometimes like a dark dreary day; it just encourages the feeling of hopelessness and despair. Hopefully my presence, if not my words, can bring some light and forgiveness to the court.

Dreary damp days, although necessary at times, make us aware of our own weakness and human frailty. I guess dark, dreary days are necessary at times.

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