Long Walks In Stormy Weather

Take long walks
in stormy weather
or through
deep snows
in the fields
and woods,
if you
would keep
your spirits up.
Deal with
brute nature.
Be cold
and hungry
and weary.
--Henry David Thoreau
(journal entry for December 25, 1856)
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three from the beautiful Butte
Frederic Chopin: Nocturne No. 9 in B Opus 32 No. 1