Mad-Mad
by Donald Culross Peattie
I have often started off on a walk
in the state called mad-mad
in the sense of sore-headed,
or mad with tedium or confusion;
I have set forth dull, null, and even thoroughly discouraged.
But I never came back in such a frame of mind,
and I never met a human being whose humor was not the better for a walk.
Notes:
Donald Culross Peattie was born on this day in Chicago in 1898.
Peattie was regarded as the most-read nature writer in America during his time.
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A misty morning scene with two people walking dogs along a dirt path on the edge of a sunlit grassy field, with trees fading into thick fog in the background.