Just back from walking the dog over thin, wet snow through heavy rain. Cold, wet, banged my knee on a piece of furniture, it hurts.

That people tend to hearken more to the anxious voices in their heads than to what others are actually saying, to take specific criticisms as general rejection in order to avoid addressing the specific issues, to divert and misdirect conversation with futile, self-defeating defensive posturing, I know all this better than most, I think, it all makes me tired and a bit nauseated.

Feeling tired and a bit nauseated.