Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall

After a particularly stressful time, we were able to go away together for several days. My husband loves history and I love the ocean, so we chose the East Coast states of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine.

Seagull Beach near West Yarmouth, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

We soaked in lots of pilgrim history (Plymouth) and sunshine (Cape Cod) and visited with old friends near Boston.

Plymouth Harbour and Plymouth Rock

Then we drove north to New Hampshire and Maine, where we traded sunny days for gray, rainy ones. I don’t mind the rain but my husband thoroughly dislikes it. I certainly didn’t want to sit in our hotel room bemoaning the weather. I wanted to get outside, see more of the beautiful landscape and walk along the ocean. Thankfully my husband is a pretty good sport and, after all, I had followed him around museums and graveyards related to his ancestors and other pieces of history I was not especially interested in, so he agreed to do some things I enjoyed as well.

We walked along the Little Boar’s Head Trail near North Hampton, New Hampshire. Man, it poured! Here is my honey giving me his best grumpy old man face (at my request), which puts me in mind of the character in A Man Called Ove. (Or Otto, if you prefer the Tom Hanks version). Cracks me up!

A man called Ove/Otto?

Then later, in Ongunquit Maine, we walked along the Marginal Way. Still gray and drizzly but thankfully not pouring.

When contemplating this post, the line “Into each life some rain must fall” came to mind and when I looked it up, I learned that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (no stranger to hardship) wrote “The Rainy Day” in Maine so it’s seemed fitting to include. Here are a few more lines:

“Be still, sad heart! and cease repining Behind the clouds is the sun still shiningthy fate is the common fate of allInto each life some rain must fall. . ."

Overall it was a good trip but we both both caught something nasty and came home sick. Not the souvenir I would have wished for! Thankfully my husband is already feeling better and hopefully I will recover soon too. Ah, well; into each life some rain must fall…