I found myself surprisingly content when the clouds came back on Wednesday this week. I’m not a big fan of the typical California winter weather: cloudy, rainy, chilly. But there’s something reassuringly normal and expected about it. The nice weather lately had been amazing and I did my best to enjoy it, but always with a little frisson of guilt, knowing that it was making an already-parched state drier and hotter. Now I’m even a little pleased things are back to normal.