My indolence, since my last reception at the Sacrament, has sunk into grosser sluggishness, and my dissipation spread into wider negligence. My thoughts have been crowded with sensuality; and except that from the beginning of this year I have in some measure forborn excess of strong drink, my appetites have predominated over my reason. A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me, so that I know not what has become of the last year; and perceive that incidents and intelligence pass over me without leaving any impression….
—Dr. Johnson, 4/24/1764
Yes, yes…well said, Doctor.
Doctor Johnson may have been experiencing the early birthing pangs of a new earth… “How far apart are they?!?!” 246 years.. Won’t be long now; just look around. April showers feel more like December’s power.