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"Vesper" and the very bad, unexplained blues, and how they went away.

I flew out of Portland on Thursday night, in my semi-lost year of of 2023, not very excited to head back to Oakland, still unsure which place was “home.” I spent most of Friday in bed, battling some depression. It was bad, but maybe not as bad as staying another day? Portland had a huge power outage in the Pearl District where I’d just left, caused by “…