a random happy one

Funny how you can go from having an absolutely amazing day one day to having a totally awful one the next.

Emotions aren't to be trusted, I guess.

I'd intended to blog about my great day, Tuesday, but didn't quite get around to it.

I was feeling fairly stable emotionally, I spent a little while playing ESO with Cal, I went to tutoring, and then, because the day had been unusually warm for mid-May, a thunderstorm rolled around - our first real thunderstorm for the year.

It was beautiful. Lightning streaked across the sky, thunder rolled, and the rain beat down mercilessly. Flash floods were reported everywhere. And the trees, the newly green trees, they whipped back and forth in the wind and threw their branches to the ground.

I chose to drive in it, to do Lyft. I ended up doing Uber instead, but same difference. To an extent.

Then, as the sun began to go down and I was heading towards Manhattan, the clouds in the west took on an unearthly orange glow. Glancing into the rearview mirror, all behind me was slate gray, dark and angry. But up ahead the sun was setting, and it looked to me like an alien planet. The opaque orange clouds, so unreal with the city skyline glowing against them.

The sun finally managed to peek out, and when it did, it was a red-orange ball of fire, hanging over the horizon like a glowing coal. And to the east: a double rainbow.

I have not seen such beauty in such a long time. I hadn't allowed myself to feel so content in such a long time. It had been such a long time since I'd felt anything that stirred me the way it used to years ago, when I was younger and less damaged.

When I dropped off my passenger in the city, I picked up my friend Nia from work a little farther uptown. We live in the same area, so my ride back wasn't wasted. Instead, I had good company and she bought me Chick fil'a. I'd never tried it before.

All in all, it was a good day. A really good day.

And I would like to leave this blog post here, end it on this note, because I haven't had happy blog posts in a while.