Happiness

Carlyle wrote:

What is Hope? A smiling rainbow
Children follow through the wet;

'Tis not here, still yonder, yonder:

Never urchin found it yet.

from this web site. A pessimistic professor quoted it to me when we were thinking about a stressed and grumpy mutual colleague.

We need hope. I keep finding bad things at the moment:

• three people with senile dementia
• someone going blind
• someone getting very forgetful
• a miscarriage
• a grumpy colleague
• a stressed colleague whose research isn't coming together
  

Carlyle cheerfully asks:

What is Life? A thawing iceboard

On a sea with sunny shore; --

Gay we sail; it melts beneath us;

We are sunk, and seen no more.

I'm feeling sunk. Great.