Tranquility Break. Plus, In 17 Years Here I've Never Seen Anything Like This

First, a comment about the simply bizarre weather we have been having here for over a week.

As many of you know, it very rarely rains at all here from early November to June. The dry season is usually just that. Months and months without a drop of rain.

Every now and then, there will be a freak rainstorm that lasts a couple of hours, or a day at most, in the middle of winter. But, it's not common. This year, everything is turned upside down. We seem to have fallen into a meteorological rabbit hole.

A cool rainy pattern set in in earnest about 10 days ago and is still prevailing. Every day, I think, this cannot continue. No way. And yet, as I look out my office door, it is raining steadily once again. Temps are hovering around 70 degrees, but to us full-time tropical birds, that is cold. So, we are squawkin.'  My heart goes out to all the folks here for a week or two of vacation, expecting the usually extremely reliable warmth and sunshine. They are being cruelly denied by the newly deranged weather gods, and aren't too happy about it.

Meanwhile, to start the year on a more tranquil note, here is an exceptionally wonderful video. Even a non-boomer should be able to appreciate the exquisite talent shown once again in this beautiful live performance.