After several sooty weeks, overcast with ash from the fires up north, it rained today and cleared away the smoke in the air that was indistinguishable from the fog in San Francisco.

During lunch I went out for a sandwich; it was still raining. I brought an umbrella and enjoyed breathing clean air. I met the rain as a bringer of good news, like I imagine it is for the farmers in a drought. It was the same to us unable to breathe because of the smoke from the fires, like I said.

Now sitting in our office chairs on the ninth floor, the sunshine is coming out. We haven’t seen sunshine in weeks, either because we leave the office too late, or the smoke has covered it, or the permanent cloud in San Francisco. Now the sunshine comes through after the rain. Thanksgiving is tomorrow. I’m excited to leave the office in a couple hours and breathe the air.