“I forgot how dark it is all the time,” my brother commented when he visited us in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula over the holidays. The sun was trapped behind cloud cover for the entire week he was here, and some years, it only peeks out occasionally during January with near daily lake-effect snowfall. Days of gray can wear on a person, and winter is far from over. Nonetheless, social media feeds resound with happiness and ambition.…

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