Today is cloudy. It rained last night and everything is still wet. It should get to 60˚this afternoon but without the help of the sun, which is currently on hiatus. I think I’m going out later. I need to get beyond the walls of my house. I have no destination in mind. I’ll just drive. I’m thinking up cape.

I talk all the time to Henry and Jack. Neither one pays much attention to me. I tell Henry to stay and wait, and he gets up or lies down. He is unclear on the concept of stay. Jack does pretty much what he wants. Right now he wants his morning nap and is lying beside me. Henry is upstairs.

I decided to forego my to-do list today, not from a Lack of choices but from a lack of ambition. Today the dust will scatter into the air when I walk down the hall. I’ll try not to notice. I’ll think of it as the dry season.

I watched videos of Ghana, a food tour of Ghana. The guy went to great stops and ate the best local food, but he mispronounced the names of places, and he even called them Ghanians. I scream at the TV. The city of Tamale is not a Mexican staple.

Maybe it is just today being Monday. In my lifetime, Monday has always been a letdown, a back to work day. Even the newspapers are smallest on Mondays. I finish reading them before I finish my second cup of coffee. That throws off the whole day.

I’m watching Greenland, a science fiction movie. The world, or most of it, will be destroyed by an asteroid and pieces of the asteroid. Tampa has disappeared in smoke and ash, destroyed by a fragment. This is the perfect movie for my mood today or maybe not. Perhaps I need a Disney to pull me out of the doldrums. Maybe, too, I need to stop at Nancy’s Candies on my ride.

The sun is right now breaking from behind the clouds. I can see blue. The day has become so much brighter. The leaves are shining. Sun and chocolate will do it every time.