The Columnist Manifesto

So said a colleague of mine early this morning about the weather, which looked like the start of a sunny spring day but which is forecast to turn into thunderstorms -- thunderstorms in March! -- by later afternoon. Already, now, it has turned darker, colder and ominous.

But isn't the day's beauty deceptive in the sense that all beauty is deceptive -- the way it tricks us into thinking that it will last forever?

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