When you need to cool your temper off, having it be cold and raining and breezy helps.
The brick of the front steps is cold under my bare feet. Over in the front garden, a spider comes out of the dirt, makes an arc on the patio concrete and back into the dirt again. I guess it looks like a more hospitable landscape.
I’m ready to go back inside now. As I walk in, the turtle splashes frantically hoping I’ll feed him. I can do that.
