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The Grand Canyon:
Fast-Moving High Followed by Lingering Depression

©2009 David Boyne

On New Year’s Eve, as the sun went down behind me, setting the darkening sky on fire, I was, for the first time in this dream world I wander through, standing on the snow-covered rim of the Grand Canyon.

For an undetermined number of heartbeats, I was made of nothing but electricity. If someone had touched me, the jolt would have stood their hair on end and knocked them on their ass.

It was a good start to a New Year.

Yet.

Just three weeks later, as I sit in this café, the only customer in the entire place, and write this essay, I realize that I am in a depression.

Could I have forecast such a rapid change?

And speaking of forecasting, why is it that meteorologists use the same words to describe the weather as we use to describe our moods? Highs, lows; mixed, unsettled; sunny, gloomy; storms, depressions? And speaking of depressions, why do economists use the same words to describe markets as meteorologists use to describe the weather and we use to describe our moods?

Having set out these tempting questions, I shall, showing great restraint, leave them unanswered.

I could be wrong, but I think that every person on earth dwells in their own micro-climate. And like the planet’s weather, a person’s weather is always in flux, always changing, always simultaneously being what it is, and what it is becoming. In California, this is called a person’s vibe. As in, “That Margaret has such a great vibe.” In New York, it is called a mood. As in, “I’m warning you that asshole is in a real mood.”

So...

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