Listen.

What's really bugging you.

[in particular, at this point in time.]

1. Failure of Proposition K and wider ramifications.
2. Diversion of Senate resources during crunch period.
3. Morphine withdrawal.

The gloom of the world is but a shadow.

Behind it, yet within our reach, is joy. There is radiance and glory in the darkness, could we but see; and to see, we have only to look. Contessina, I beseech you to look 

.... 

Life is so full of meaning and of purpose, so full of beauty--beneath its covering--that you will find earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage, then, to claim it: that is all! But courage you have; and the knowledge that we are pilgrims together, wending, through unknown country, home.

Boston

The Athens of America was unhospitably cold when we visited: so cold the local weather forecasts passed on "clear" in favour of "frigid". It didn't help that we picked the coldest day of all to walk the Freedom Trail--the whole length of it starting from the Boston Commons, winding through Downtown and up the North Bay, and finally across the Charles River, ending at the Bunker Hill Monument.