The prior post was left incomplete.
Two additional possibilities needed to be added. The first proposes that feeling down is some form of “grey day syndrome.” The morning sky was blanketed with grey in expectation of snow, the bleak dawn posed a threat, not a welcome. Perhaps feeling down was attributable to environmental factors.
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I am number three on an attack line consisting of 2.5 inch cotton covered hose pressurized to something in excess of 130 p.s.i. At these pressures the hose is as stiff as a tube of steel. You have to throw your entire weight into it to bend it around alley corners, or force it to descend through a hatchway to reach the deck below.
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The header image on this post depicts the structure that permits you to read this page, to understand these glyphs as words with a meaning, meaning that is known to you, meaning that is shared with all other humans literate in English, meaning that in some ineluctable way has come to inhabit the brain matter of millions of beings.
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