If you live in NYC you know… it just rained all day today. And I mean all day. Really. All of it. And hard too.

A friend of mine (thank you MHR) directed me towards this lovely little performance… about another kind of rain.

“Eh this is about all the bad days in the world. I used to have some really bad days. And I kept them in a little box. And one day I threw them out into the yard. Oh, it’s just a couple of innocent bad days. Well, we had a big rain…

I don’t know what it was growing in, but I think we used to put egg shells out there and coffee grounds too. Don’t plant your bad days! They grow into weeks, the weeks grow into months, and before you know it you got yourself a bad year.

Take it from me: CHOKE those little bad days! CHOKE ‘em down to nothing! There are your days, CHOKE ‘em! You choke my days, I’ll choke yours! All right… It’s more than rain…”

—Tom Waits, “More Than Rain”