Well…man, I feel like I’m going through cortisol (the fight or flight hormone) withdrawal today after 4 years of having a ball of it inside me…from the day that idiot boy got elected, I have had elevated stress levels from worrying about what the latest outrage from the moron was going to be and how it was going to affect me. It dawned on me today when I was out riding that one of the effects of having the great outcome of the election is that music is becoming just music again…let me explain…over the past four years, I have had to have many coping mechanisms to allow me to survive the trump years…and music was one of the components of my shield along with drinking too much, riding too much, and keeping myself pretty isolated from the news. But today, music started to return to the thing I have enjoyed all my life…something that made me happy and helped elevate my mood…and with that change I started to notice the songs again and enjoy every note, they were no longer just a noisy shield that kept my brain occupied and the world out but they were different, like they had color again and nuance and even got me bopping to some of them on the bike. This kind of change hasn’t happened with food yet and I wonder if it will? It would be nice to savor some tastes and think of food not just as fuel but to be able to enjoy it…that might be too much to ask.