Early Thursday here on California’s north coast, and maybe a seasonal-change forewarned — a crisp, clarity in the air this morning, ocean sound-waves from the Pacific quickly/easily recognized, and seemingly awhile since the last time I’d heard that soothing, near-musical shoreline noise.

Seemingly for weeks, we’ve been early-on each day, enveloped in thick, layered ground fog — not much sound in such an environment, though, normal for the season — which eventually is blown off into a warm, sunshine-splashed afternoon.
As an early riser, start to the last few days to me have appeared different than the last two/three months, the pre-dawn/first-sunlight phase, star-lit and more-clear, the Pacific Ocean hum, even crow calls, more-pronounced and distinct.

(Illustration found here).

Weather we know it or not, seasons change, and sometimes, if one has walking-around sense, the shift can be sensed without much mental anguish and difficulty.
And you don’t got to be no weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing — gloomy and the more-less trustful:

In the mid-1970s, when baby boomers were coming of age, about a third of high school seniors agreed that “most people can be trusted.”
That dropped to 18 percent in the early 1990s for Gen Xers — and then, in 2012, to just 16 percent of Millennials.
…
“Young people today feel disconnected and alienated,” says Twenge, who wrote the book “Generation Me,” which examines the attitudes of today’s youth.
She finds these outcomes “especially distressing” for a generation that had been expected to be more trusting of government.
Young people, even those from differing backgrounds, say the findings ring true.
“I do not trust the government as far I can throw a car, which is not very far at all,” says Steve McGlinchey, a 21-year-old who lives in Burton, Michigan, outside Flint, and works for a company that installs industrial furnaces for auto companies and other businesses.

America just don’t seem like America no more — the American Dream is/was fueled by an illusion and the familia tradition:

In a report for the Council on Contemporary Families being released today, Cohen notes that in the 1950s, 65 percent of all children under 15 were being raised in traditional breadwinner-homemaker families.
Today, only 22 percent are.

In white America, of course. Nowadays in the rising diversity, still not all that diverse:

Overall, the social networks of whites are a remarkable 91 percent white.
White American social networks are only one percent black, one percent Hispanic, one percent Asian or Pacific Islander, one percent mixed race, and one percent other race.
In fact, fully three-quarters (75 percent) of whites have entirely white social networks without any minority presence.
This level of social-network racial homogeneity among whites is significantly higher than among black Americans (65 percent) or Hispanic Americans (46 percent).

Yet diverse together in one one near-literal, heating-to-boiling pot:

July 2014 was the 353rd consecutive month in which global land and ocean average surface temperature exceeded the 20th-century monthly average.
The last time the global average surface temperature fell below that 20th-century monthly average was in February 1985, as reported by the US-based National Climate Data Center.
This means that anyone born after February 1985 has not lived a single month where the global temperature was below the long-term average for that month.

And that would make you not trust any freakin’ thing…

In my little space, now a week into retirement, today could easily be mentally-mistaken for a Saturday or Sunday — but it’s just Thursday. Odd how time and place can be at odds, huh?