A moment of peace in the storm

It's been rough the past few months. Every quarter of the school year has its own unique challenges. But the fourth quarter is exhaustion. The fourth quarter manifests as gradually coming in later and later to work. It manifests as kids shifting into summer mode. It manifests as survival meals, extra trips for ice cream, and later nights. It is overstimulation. This has been a rougher year under the Trump administration, which has continued to inflict racial, political, and economic violence upon the American people. Every day is something new. As the temperature increases and the days grow longer, I've been increasingly reluctant to go on my Golden Hour walks. I've only walked three or four times since spring break. Unsurprisingly, my mental health has been struggling lately. There is a storm rolling through in the next few days. The temperature and the humidity are both in the 80s, it's mostly cloudy, and especially windy. I decided on a whim to make myself go for a walk this…