If you spend any time online (and you really shouldn’t; it’s scary out there), you will quickly discover the world is ending. It’s over. Everything is awful and if you can’t see that, well, you’re a big dummy. At least that’s been my experience. Luckily, though, I live in Maine. And I go outside regularly and get a chance to see the wonders this great state has to offer us. Plus, I regularly interact with people who smoke weed and drink beer for a living. They don’t seem to have it so bad. In fact, this place can regularly seem pretty awesome. Sure, the world is filled with horrors, perpetrated by bad people with entirely too much power and too little empathy, but if we focus our attention locally, on our neighbors and friends and the people who make up our community, it’s easy to see we’ve got it pretty good.