The third of warm, spring like days- with alternate showers and sunshine - a strong warm wind from the southwest - yearning and longing fill me with feelings of regret & agony- I long to be quit of such a complicated life; of news of a mad world, a world sinking into chaos & degeneracy. The trouble is with me, that I don’t turn my back on it all, and contemplate the peace of nature, and God.
Charles E. Burchfield, December 27, 1936