34 There was no more riding after that, though the weather grew too cold, and Matabesit was put off till spring, but with walks and talks and reading aloud, Gautas Maxim was well carried out, for there is music that needs no composer but peace and fireside groups that are not bad pictures in stormy weather. And so December began to check off its short days with busy fingers. There came a sudden interruption to all this, except December's part of it, for a letter arrived from Miss Dalia Danforth at Pequot, begging that Faith would come and spend a little time with her. Miss Dalia was very unwell, and suffering and alone, with the exception of her brother's French wife, and she wrote with longing desire to see faith. Mr. Danforth had been some years dead, and the widow and the sister who had lived so long together with him, since his death had kept their old household life in a very quiet way without him. But now Miss Danforth longed for some of her own kindred, for at a special liking her desire for Faith's company, for she prayed her to come, and it was not a call that Faith herself a moment doubted about answering. Mrs. Derek's willingness lingered for various natural reasons, but that too followed. It was clear that Faith ought not to refuse. The day before she was to go, Mrs. Derek made herself unusually busy and tired, so as to spare Faith's study time, and thus it fell out that when night came and prayers were over, Mrs. Derek went straight to bed, partly from fatigue, partly to be ready for an early start next day, for she was to drive Faith over to Pequod. No such need or inducement sent Faith to bed, and the two students planned a longer evening of work than common to anticipate lost time. But when the hours were about half spent, Cindy came to the door and called out, Miss Faith. Faith took her book and went to the door which she held open. There was a boy come tonight, said Cindy, from that old starvation creature down by Barley Point, and he says she's more in a box than ever, ain't a crumb of bread for breakfast, nor supper neither for that. Is the boy here now? Why, it sakes no, said Cindy, come while you was to supper. I suppose I might have told you before, but then again I was busy baking cakes, and I'm free to confess I forgot, and prayers always does turn everything out of my ray head. I can't guess how I thought of it now. Mr. Skips away tonight too, said Cindy, conclusion.  It's too far for you to go alone. Can you find somebody to go with you, Cindy? I'll put up a basket of things for her. Ain't a soul in sight, said Cindy. I'd as leaves go to the hallway, alone, as to snoop brown hunting folks. Then, Cindy, if you'll get ready, I'll go with you. She must have something. Cindy looked at her. Guess you better get fixed first, Miss Faith. Taint hardly worth my while, I reckon. Who shouldn't we have after us? Just have your shawl and bonnet ready, Cindy, will you? said Faith gravely, and I'll be ready in a very few minutes. She went with business speed to pantry and cellar, and soon had a sizable basket properly filled. Leaving that in Cindy's charge, Faith went back to the sitting-room and came and stood by the table and said quietly, I can't do any more tonight, Mr. Linden. I must be busy in another way. I'm going out for a little while. May I ask, not from curiosity, with whom? He said, looking up at her, with Cindy, to attend to some business she didn't tell me of in proper time. Faith had laid her books together and was going off. Mr. Linden rose from the table. With me, if you please, Miss Faith, I will not intrude upon your business. It's no business to be intruded upon, she said, with her simple look into his face. But Cindy and I can do it. Please do not let me take you away. I'm not afraid much. Miss Faith, you want a great many lessons yet, and I do not deserve this. Don't you know that in Mrs. Derrick's absence I am guardian of her house and of you? I will go with you or without you, just as you choose, he added, smiling. If you would rather study than what you shall. Is the business too intricate for me to manage? It's only to carry some things to an old woman who is in great want of them. They can't wait till tomorrow. If you will, Mr. Linden, I'll be ready in a minute. I'd like to go. She ran to get ready. Mr. Linden went to the kitchen and took the basket from Cindy, and then waited at the front door till Faith came, and they went out into the moonlight together, a very bright moonlight. In dark shadows, dark and still, only one of them seemed to move, but that one made Faith glad of her change of companions. Perhaps it made the same suggestion to Mr. Linden, for his first words looked that way. Miss Faith, you did not do quite right tonight. Don't you know, with a gentle, half-smiling tone, you must not let anything make you do wrong. Her look and tone were both very confiding in touch with timidity. Did I, Mr. Linden? I didn't mean to. I know that, but you must remember for another time. And he went off to other subjects, giving her talk and information that were perhaps better than books. The walk was good, too. The air bracing and the village sights and sounds and a subsiding glimmer and murmur. The evening out of doors was worth as much as the evening within doors could have been. Faith thought so. The way was down the road that led to Barley Point, branching off from that. The distance to the poor cottage seemed short enough, but if it had seemed long, Faith would have felt herself well paid. So much was the supply needed, so joyfully was it received. The basket was left there for Mr. Skip to bring home another time, and at a rather late hour in the evening the return walk began. The night was sharp and frosty, and still, now, with a depth of silence, the moon high and full beamed down in silver splendor. In the face of the earth was all white and black, the cold, clear light, the sharp shadows angling and defining everything, the absolute stillness, how well they chimed. In charm they did, albeit noiselessly. In that bracing air the very steps of the two homeward bound people seemed to spring more light and elastic. They gave a little sound. They went on together with a quick, even step. The very walking was pleasant. For a while they talked busily, too, and then thought came in and claimed her place, and words ceased. They had left the turn to the belt of woods, and were now passing one or two empty fields where low hedges made a black line of demarcation, and the moonlight seemed even whiter than before. Faith was on the side next to the road, in both a little way out, for the walking was smoother and drier. How it was done Faith could not tell the next two seconds seen full of separate things which she remembered afterwards, but her hand was disengaged from Mr. Linden's arm, and he was standing before her and she behind him almost before she had fairly seen a little flash of red light from the hedge before them. A sharp report, powdery taint on the sweet air, came then to give their evidence. To what? That second pass Mr. Linden turned, but still standing so as to shield her, and laid both hands on her shoulders. Are you hurt? he said in a voice lowered by feeling, not in tent. One bewildered instant she stood mute, perhaps with no breath for words. The next minute, with a motion too unexpected and sudden to be hindered, lifting both hands, she threw his off, bound it to one side to be clear of him, and sprang like a gazelle towards the spot where the red flash had caught her eye, but she was caught and stopped before she reached it, and held still, the same shield between her and the hedge. Did it touch you, Mr. Linden, repeated? No, let me, let me, she said eagerly, endeavouring to free herself. He was silent a moment, a deep drawn breath, the only reply, but he did not lose his hold. My dear child, he said, you could find nothing. For what would you go? The tone was very gentle, even moved. You must walk on before me, as quick as you can, will you promise to do it? I will keep you in sight. Before you? No. What are you going to do? Are you touched, her voice changed as she went on? I am not heard, and mean to do nothing tonight, but follow you home. Forgive me your promise, Ms. Fed, you must not stand here. Why in front will they be behind us? I must have you in sight, and I will not have you near me, and letting go his hold, he said almost imperatively. I will trust you, walk on before me, Ms. Fed, you must not delay a moment. I will go with you, she said low, and clinging to his arm. Your safety is in being near me, I will not delay, come. But the hand was taken off again, and held in both his while he spoke. I will not have you anywhere near me. If you do not walk on far in front, I shall, and keep watch of you as best as I can. And he let go her hand and stepped back with a quick pace that soon put some distance between them. She stood still a moment, looking, and then sprang back till she reached him, speaking with the low vehemence that did not seem like faith. I will not do it, Mr. Linden, I will not. I will not. Come, come, don't stay here. Whatever Mr. Linden felt at that appeal, and he was not a man to feel it lightly, his words lost none of their firmness. I shall not stir until you are ten yards in front of me, unless I leave you as far behind. She planted herself for an instant before him, and looked in his face, with eyes of quiet but most eloquent, beseeching. No, he repeated, you must go on and fear nothing. Child, there is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few. She did not answer, even by the little shake of the head, which sometimes with her stood in place of words. She turned, went swiftly forward, with a straight, even, unsflakening pace which did not falter nor stop for a long, long piece of the way. How long it was, by the mind's measurement, it would be hard to tell. It was one breathless sense of pain and fear, of which moonlight and shadows, and the points of the way all made part, and were woven in together.  Down the little pitch of the road where that tabarly point forked off, then by a space of clear fences where hedgerows were not, and a barn or two rose up in the moonlight, through gates where the post-shadows were black and deep, by the skirting bushes that now and then gathered about the rails. She walked as fast as she could and keep her strength. That was unconsciously measured too. It had seemed to her in her agony of pleading before the commencing of this strange walk, that it was impossible she should do it. She was doing it now under a force of will that she had not been able to withstand, and her mind was subdued and strained beyond the power of thinking. Her very walking seemed to her mechanical. Intensely alive as her senses were all the time, there was a transient relief at coming into the neighborhood of the house, and a drear feeling of desolation and increased danger as she left it behind her. But her pace neither faltered nor flagged. She looked round sometimes, but never paused for that. Before the more thickly settled part of the village was reached, her step grew a little slower, probably from the sheer necessity of failing strength, but steady it was at whatever rate of travel. When at last they turned the sandy corner into the broad street or main way of the village where houses and gardens often broke the range of hedgeway or fence, the lights spoke to lights in the neighboring windows. Faith stopped and stood lenient against the fence. In another moment she was drawn away from that to a better support. Are you faint, Mr. Linden said? Her no was faint, but the answer was true for all the rest of her. He drew her hand within his arm and held on silently, but how glad he was to see her home. Faith might guess from the way she was half carried up the steps and into the hall, and the door shut and locked behind her. After the same fashion she was taken into the sitting-room and placed in the easy chair, and her wrappers unfastened and taken off with very gentle and quick hands. She offered almost as little help as hindrance, and her head sank immediately. He stood by her and repeated his question about faintness. Oh, no, sir, I'm not faint. It's nothing, Faith said, but as if her very voice was exhausted. In crossing her arms upon the table, close to which the easy chair stood, she laid her head down upon them. Her mother might well say she had a baby face. It looks so, then. Mr. Linden's next move was to get a glass of wine and with gentle force and persuasion to make her swallow it. That done he stood leaning upon the back of her chair, silently, but with a very, very gray face. She kept her position scarcely stirring for some length of time, except that after a while she hit her face in her hands, and sitting so at last she spoke in a troubled tone. What could be done, Mr. Linden, to put a stop to this? I will try what could be done, he answered, though not as if that point were uppermost in his mind. I think I can find a way. I wish nothing gave me more uneasiness than that. Do you think there is any way that you can do it, thoroughly? Yes, I think so, he repeated. There are ways of doing most things. I shall try. Do not think about it, Miss Faith. I have something now to make me glad you are going to Pequod. Before I could only remember how much I should miss my scholar. Why are you glad now, Mr. Linden? Faith's voice was in as subdued a state of mind as her face. Change of air will be good for you till this air is in a better state. She made no answer in a few minutes. She rose up, gathered her wrappers into one hand. Are you better, he said? Will you promise to go right to sleep and leave all troublesome matters where alone they can be taken care of? The faintest kind of a smile flitted across her face. I don't know, she said doubtfully. I don't know what I can do, Mr. Linden. I told you. I'll try the last part, she said, with a somewhat more defined smile as she glanced up at him. It was as grave and gentle a smile as is often known. You must try it all, he said, giving her hand the same touch it had once before. Miss Faith, I may use your words. I think you will never give me harder work to do than I have had tonight. She could not bear that.  Still, because of the effort to control herself, was at the moment as much as she could do. It was successful, though barely, and then without venturing another look, she said her low good night, sir, and moved away. She was accompanied as far as the door, but then Mr. Linden paused, with his hand on the latch. Shall you take any work? I mean, book work with you to Pequot? Or will your hands find too much else to do? I meant to take some. I meant to do a good deal. I hope so. Then can you come back to the Great Chair for ten minutes and let me give you a word or two of direction? She came immediately and sat down, and Mr. Linden went back to where they had been interrupted early in the evening, and told her what and where and how to go on in the various books, till she should see him again, putting marks here and there to save her trouble, or penciling some explanation which might be needed. It took but a few minutes to do this, and then Mr. Linden laid the books together and, drawing the old Bible towards him once more, he turned to the ninety-first psalm and read it aloud. Read it with full heartfelt effect, which made the words fall like the dew they are upon the weary little flower, faith was. Then he bade her once more good night. She went refreshed, yet to become a prey to struggling thoughts which for a while prevented refreshment from having its waffle action. How much of the night in of the early morning faith spent in these thoughts and in the fruit of them is uncertain, for the evening's work would sufficiently have accounted for her worn look the next day. End of Chapter 34 Chapter 35 of Say and Seal This is a labor box recording. All labor box recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit laborbox.org. Recording by Kathleen Say and Seal by Susan Warner. Chapter 35 Must I go to Pequot? Was the first thought that entered Faith's mind the next morning, and the advancing daylight, with its clear steadfast way of looking at things, said, Yes, you must. Is there anything I, who know most about this business, can do to put an end to it? That was a second thrilling question. The same daylight gave its frank answer. No, you cannot, you cannot. Faith took both answers, and then saw it, in the very spirit of a child, to leave all troublesome things where alone they could be taken care of. There is a faculty in this, sayeth Layton, that all persons have not. But the spirit of a child can do it, and the spirit of a Christian, so far as it is right, is none other. Faith went down stairs, in spite of inward sorrow and trembling, with a quiet brow. It was very much the face of last night, for its subdued look, and in spite of the night's rest, in its paleness too. Though the color played there somewhat fitfully, sorrowful note of that Mr. Linden took, or the pained look of last night had not passed off from his face, or both might be true. So far as the most gentle, quick-sighted, and careful attention could be of avail. The breakfast was pleasant, otherwise it was but a grave affair. Even Mrs. Derrick looked from one to the other, with thoughtfulness that was not merely a fates going away. There was little time, however, for observations. Directly after breakfast the wagon was got ready, and when they were bestowed in it, and Mr. Linden's farewell had bade faith, remember all his injunctions the night before. He turned and walked on to his own place of work, and the mother and daughter set forth on their journey. In a small, insignificant house, in a by-street of Pequot, was the little, very odd household of the two, Miss and Madame Danforth. They kept no servant, they lived quite to themselves. The various work of the household they shared between them, and made it as good as play. And no worse than play seemed all the rest of their quiet lives. But Miss Dilly was ill now, and unable to do her part. And what was worse, and more, she had lost her wanted, cheerful, and gay way of looking at things, that the little French woman never lost. But it takes two to keep up a shuttlecock, and faith was welcome in that house. What work she did there for the next two or three weeks was best known, not to herself, but to the two old ladies whose hearts she cheered, and they knew not all. They did not know the leap of faith's heart at the thought of home. Whenever, morning or noon or night, it came into her head. She kept it out of her head as much as she could, and she went about from the top to the bottom of the house, even after the first day she came. The same sort of sunbeam she was at home. She took in hand Miss Danforth's broom and duster, and did Cindy's part of setting cups and saucers. But that was a small matter. The helpful hand, which made itself so busy, and the voice which ran music all up and down the house, were never forgotten, even by the French woman. To Miss Danforth, feeble and ailing, faith ministered differently, and did truly the work of an angel. More than once before the second day was done, Miss Dilly repeated, Faith, child, how glad I am I sent for you. And Madame Danforth took to her mightily, opened heart and arms without reservation, and, delighting to have her company, carried her down into the kitchen, and initiated faith into deep mysteries of the science and art, the headquarters of which are there. Now did Faith learn new secrets about coffee, about eggs, about salads, and about vegetables that she never knew before? And for some unknown reason she was keen to learn, and like the half hours over the kitchen fire, with Madame Danforth so well, that the little French woman grew proud of her pupil. It was the third day of Faith's being at Bequat. Faith was engaged in some gentle offices about the room, folding up clothes and putting drawers in order. Miss Danforth's eye watched her, following every movement, till Madame Danforth left the room to go out on business. Faith was summoned then to her aunt's side. It was the darkening part of the afternoon. Faith sat down at the foot of Miss Danforth's great, easy chair, looked into the fire, and wondered what they were doing at Paddock Quasset. And so, Faith, child, you're taken to new ways. I hear, to Faith's quick ear, Miss Danforth's voice shooed a purpose. It was less brisk than its old want. Her answer was as simple as possible. Yes, Aunt Dilly, it's true. You don't think you're any better than you used to be? Do you? No, ma'am. Yet my life is better, I hope. I don't believe it. How could it be, in this, at least, that I am the servant of God now, before I never thought of serving him? I never did, said Miss Dilly. But there was a silence. Faith's heart left to hear this confession, but she said nothing and said still as a mouse. How's Mr. Linden getting on in Paddock Quasset? Well, you like him as well as ever? Yes. Alert questions, rather faint answers. Do you remember what he said one night about everybody being precious? Do you remember it, Faith? Yes, ma'am. Very well. I suppose I have thought of it 550 times, Miss Dilly went on. What were the words, Faith? Do you know them? Faith did not move, only repeated, and if they had been literal diamonds, every word would not have seemed so precious to her. They shall be mine, saith the Lord, in the day when I make up my jewels. That's it, said Miss Dilly. Now, go on. Can you, Faith, and tell me what it means? It is spoken of the people that fear the Lord on Dilly. It goes on. And I will spare them, as a man spareth his own, on that serveeth him. Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveeth God and him that serveeth him not. Tell me more, Faith, said Miss Danforth, presently in a subdued voice. I don't understand one thing about it from beginning to end. In answer to which Faith turned, took a Bible, and as one did of old, preached unto her Jesus. It was very simple preaching. Faith told her aunt the story, even very much as she had told it to Johnny Fax, and with the same sweet grave face and winning tongue, which had drawn the children, as earnest as they, Miss Dilly, listened and looked, and brought her strong sense to bear upon the words. Not with the same ease of understanding, she said little, accepting to bid Faith, go on, in a tone that told the quest she was upon unsatisfied yet. Faith went on, but preferred to let the Bible word speak instead of her own. It brought Mrs. Custer's to mind again. Though this time Faith's joy of heart made her words ring as from a sweet silver trumpet, so they fell on the sick woman's ear. Nor was there a stay or an eruption till Faith heard the hall door close below. She shut the book then. Then her arm came round Miss Danforth's neck, and her kisses spoke well enough. The glad sympathy and encouragement Faith spoke in no other way. One earnest return answered her. From that time, to read the Bible to her aunt was Faith's work, morning, noon, and night, literally, sometimes far into the night, for Miss Danforth, embracing what she had never known before, as the light gradually broke upon her, and feeling that her time for study might be made short, was in eager haste and longing to acquaint herself with the broad field of duties and privileges. All knew, now laid open before her. Faith could not read too much. Miss Dilly could not listen too long. Faith, child, she said one night, late, when they were alone, can't you pray for me? I do, Aunt Dilly. No, no, but I mean, can't you pray with me?  Faith kissed her, hit her face in her hands and trembled, and then knelt and prayed, and many a time after that. End of chapter 35 Chapter 36 of Say and Seal This is a labor box recording. All labor box recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit laborbox.org. Recording by Kathleen Say and Seal by Susan Warner Chapter 36 The Saturday before Christmas, which was more over the day but one before, Squire Stout and Bird went over to Pequot, and having checked off his business items, drove straight to Madame Danforth's. The door was opened to him by the French woman, who took him into a little room, very like herself, and left him. And in another minute or two, Faith came in. Her exclamation was with the unmistakable tone and look of pleasure. My dear, I am very glad to see you. Was part of the warm reply. How do you do? I do very well, sir. Ah, said the Squire. I suppose so. Well, I'll give you a chance to do better.  You're wanted. Am I? said Faith with a quick change. There's nothing the matter. Nothing bad, said Squire. At least I hope not.  Oh, yes, sir. And very glad. But did Mother send for me? Send for you if I could get you, this Faith. I don't suppose she'll ever really interfere with your doings, if you choose to go and live in the moon. But she's half-sick for the sight of you. That's prevalent just now, said the Squire.  The doctor went off for fear he should take it. But some people have duties, you know, and can't stir. There was a tiny peach blossom tinge on Faith's cheek, which the Squire was pleased to take note of. She stood with the thoughtful face the while. I'll be ready, Mr. Stoutenberg. When will you come for me? The time was fixed, and Faith made her explanations to her friends, promising that if need were, she would come back again, or her mother, after Christmas. Miss Dilly let her go very willingly, yet most unwillingly, and Madame Danforth's reluctance had nothing to balance it. So it was that Faith's joy had its wanted mixture of gravity when she met the Squire again. If you're not going to be glad to get home, I'm a rich man if I'll go in with you. He said as he put her in the sleigh and tucked her up with shawls and buffalo robes. That's the way. First get power and then abuse it. Power? Mr. Stoutenberg, what do you mean? I am very glad to go home. Don't I look so? She certainly did. I mean that I haven't seen anybody smile since you went away, said Mr. Stoutenberg, proceeding to tuck himself up in like manner. Except Dr. Harrison, he kept himself in practice while he stayed. Faith was silent, eyeing the snowy road and the jingling horse heads, with a bounding feeling of heart that she was going home. She dared allow it to herself now. What do you guess made the doctor leave that flyaway horse of his for Mr. Linden to tame, said the Squire. Has he any particular reason for wishing to break his neck? Did he do that? Break his neck? Why no, not yet. I suppose the doctor lives in hopes. You take it coolly, Ms. Faith. Upon my word, Mr. Stoutenberg, I meant, did he leave the horse for him? Dr. Harrison knew there wasn't much danger, Mr. Stoutenberg. Mr. Stoutenberg touched up his own team. I guess, he said slowly, the doctor don't just know how much danger there is. So Padaqua said he'll have a chance to come down on both feet, which that hoarsed on too often. We've had all sorts of goings on, Ms. Faith. Have you, sir? The question was put quietly enough, but there was a little tinge of curiosity, too. Yes, said the Squire shaking his whip. Sam Deacon's gone away and Mr. Linden's grown unpopular. Ain't that news? What do you mean, sir? Why, Sam Deacon's gone away, the Squire repeated coolly. He was getting rather too much of a sport and character for our town, so a friend of mine was going to Egypt or somewhere. Took him along.  I should have sent him a worse journey. Only I was overruled. And is he gone to Egypt? Said Faith. Hardly got so far yet. Said the Squire. But I thought it would be good for Sam's health. He's been a little weaker than usual about the head lately. That was only half of your news, Mr. Stoutender. Faith said after another interval of musing. Totter halves nothing. Wonderful. Mr. Linden's getting unpopular with everybody in town that he don't make up to on the right side. And as there's a good many of them, I'm afraid it'll spread. I've done my best to tell him how to quiet the matter. But you might as well tell a pepper ridge which way to grow. Did you ever try to make him do anything? Said the Squire, facing round upon Faith. The startling of Faith's eyes was like a flash. And something so her color went and came. The answer was very orderly. Yes, sir. Hum. I suppose he did it. Guess I'll come to you next time I want anything done. Are you cold, my dear? Said the Squire, renewing his efforts at wrapping up. Faith's desire for Patec Quasset news was satisfied. She manifested no more curiosity about anything, and so far as appeared in words, was contented with her own thoughts. That, however, would have been a rash conclusion, for thoughts do occupy that do not content. And Faith could willingly have spared the hints in Mr. Stoutender's last speech. And indeed, in several others, she by no means understood them thoroughly. Yet something of the drift and air of them she did feel, and felt as unnecessary. There had been already in Faith's mind a doubtful look towards the last evening she had spent in Patec Quasset. A certain undefined consciousness that her action that night might have said or seen to say. She knew not what. She could find no fault with it. To herself. There had been nothing that she could help. But yet this consciousness made her more tender upon anything that touched the subject. She had thought of it, and put it out of her head several times in these last weeks. And now Mr. Stoutender's words had just the effect to make her shy. Faith's mind, however, had been full of grave and sweet things of late, and was in such a state now. The principal feeling which the Squire's words could not change was a very deep and joyous happiness. She was exceeding glad to go home. But at the same time, in a mood too quiet and sober for the wine of joy to get into her head, Squire Stoutenburg, too, seemed satisfied. Perhaps with the uncooled hue of Faith's cheeks, and now drove on at a rapid rate, talking only of indifferent matters. The horses tried it quick over the smooth snow, and the gathering lead color overhead was touched with gleams of light here and there, as the sun went down behind the patecroissette outlines. Swiftly they jingled along, crossing the ferry and mounting the hill, past trees and barns and village houses, then into the main street, down which horses flew with a will, thinking of oats and their good stable, and unwillingly reigned in at Mrs. Derek's door. It was dark by that time. Faith could see little, but the lights glimmering in the windows, and indeed had no time to see much. So suddenly and softly was she lifted out of the sleigh the moment it stopped. Then Mr. Linden's voice said, Thank you, Mr. Stoutenburg. That's one way of thanking me, said the Squire. However, I suppose it's all right, and gave his impatient horses their way. Why, Mr. Linden, said Faith, half laughing, but with a little of the old timidity in her voice, how could you see me before I saw you? For various reasons, Ms. Faith, how do you do? He led her on into the house and into the tea room, there to delight her mother's heart and make her mother's eyes overflow. Pretty child, Mrs. Derek said, I never will let you go away again for anybody. Faith laughed and kissed her and kissed her, but did not take that moment to say what she thought. That Mrs. Derek would have to let her go again in a few days, perhaps, and for Ms. Danforth herself. Then her eye glanced at the tea table, as it might add an ungoverned kingdom, or a vacated sphere, and the fullness of her heart broke out. Mother, I'm glad to be home again. The tone said it yet more than the words.  The hand was taken and kept, his eyes taking a quiet survey of her the while. Ms. Faith, you want to be said to work? Some people will neglect themselves if they have a chance. I haven't done much work since I have been away. Mr. Linden. He smiled. What was he reading in her face? You don't know what you have done, child, he said. But she looks glad, Mrs. Derek, and we are very glad to have her, whereupon Faith was conducted to the tea table without more delay. Mrs. Derek feeling sure that she was starving both with cold and hunger. Faith had no appearance of being cold, and though she certainly did eat her supper as if she was glad to be at home, it was not with the air of a person with whom his bread and butter is the first thought. Gladness shown in every look and movement. But at the same time, over all the gladness there was a slight fail. It might be gravity, but it might not be all gravity. For part of it was very like constraint. The eyes were more ready to fall than to rise, and the words, though free to come, had a great facility for running in short sentences. But Mrs. Derek was too happy to notice such light streaks of mist in the sunshine, and talked away at a most unusual rate, telling Faith how Mr. Linden had ridden that wild horse, and had found time to teach her little class, and in general had done everything else, for everything seemed to hinge upon him. Mr. Linden himself, with now and then a word to qualify, or to make Faith laugh, took a somewhat special and quiet care of her and her wands at the table, all which seemed to Faith, in her mood, very like little gentle suggestions at that fail. Otherwise, it was rather silent. Then followed prayers, with all the sweet warm influences of the time, and then Faith might sit and talk, or be silent, as she liked, rest being considered the best work for that evening. It would seem that she liked to be silent, if that were a fair conclusion from her silence. Her eye took happy note of the familiar things in and about the room. Then she sat and looked into the fireplace, as glad to see it again, maybe, or doubtful about looking elsewhere, as silently for a few minutes. Mr. Linden took note of her. Then he spoke, Ms. Faith, will you let me give you lessons all through the holidays? She gave him a swift, blushing glance and smile. If you like to do it, Mr. Linden, and if I am here, where do you find those two ifs? I thought, perhaps, when I came away from Piqua today, that I might go back again after Monday. I am afraid Aunt Dilly will want me. How much must people want you to gain a hearing? There are different kinds of wanting, Faith said gravely. Aunt Dilly may miss me too much, and the abstract too much is different from the comparative. What about the other if? The other if? I don't know that there is anything about it, Mr. Linden. Faith said laughing, whence did it come before it trickled? As Bunyan says to your tongue, I don't know, sir. Ms. Faith, I did not think you would so forget me in three weeks. Do you want to hear the story of a very cold, icy little brook, he said, with a sort of amused mirrorness that gave her the benefit of all his adjectives. She looked up at him with earnest eyes, not at all amused, but that verged on being hurt, and it was with a sort of fear of what the real answer might be, that she asked what he meant. Ms. Faith, I mean nothing very bad, he said with a full smile at her then. When I really think you are building yourself an ice palace, I shall spend my efforts upon thawing, not talking. What have you been doing all these weeks? With a little bit of answering smiles, she said, in a deliberate kind of way. I have been running about house and learning how to cook French cookery, Mr. Linden, and most of all, I've been reading the Bible, I haven't had time to do much else. Do you know, Mr. Linden said as he watched her, that is just what I thought, and so you have been going step by step up the mountain? Do you see how the road improves? Do you find the richer pastures and the pure air? Oh, sir, said Faith, looking up at him, I was reading to Aunt Dilly. I know, I understood that. Are not my words true still? Gravity and shyness all except the gravity that belonged to her and to the subject broke away from Faith. She rose up and stood beside Mr. Linden, moved happy and glad with the gladness of full sympathy. It has been a pleasant two weeks, Mr. Linden, though I would have right to be at home. Aunt Dilly has wanted the Bible morning, noon, and night, and it was wonderful to read it to her. It has been my business all these days. My dear child, I am very glad, he said, taking her hand. Wonderful? Yes, it is wonderful to read to one who wants it.  Very soon it was all, or mostly, clear to her. I read to her sometimes till 12 o'clock at night, and sometimes began at four in the morning. Mr. Linden looked at her with a mingling of expressions. I'm afraid that was not good for you. If one dares say it, of any work done in that service, do you know how much the Bible is like that pillar of fire which guided the Israelites? But to those who were not of Israel became a pillar of cloud, from which the Lord looked out but to trouble them. Faith's eye watched him as he spoke, and caught the power and beauty of the illustration, but she did not speak. Until after thinking and musing a while, she said softly, It don't trouble Aunt Dilly. Mr. Linden drew up a chair for her near his own, but made no other comment upon her or her musings at first. Then abruptly, and you think she will want you again? There is nobody else to do this for her, said Faith, and again was silent. How do you suppose it all began with Aunt Dilly, Mr. Linden? As to means? I cannot tell. It began from a few words, which I daresay you have forgotten, but which she and I remember. Words that you said one evening when she was here last summer about everybody's being precious in one sense. You repeated that passage. They shall be mine, saith the Lord, you know. Faith did not know what a soft elimination was in her eyes, or she would probably not have turned the light of it so full upon Mr. Linden, as at one or two points of her speech she did. It was a grave, sweet look that answered her, but then his eyes went off to the fire without further reply. Faith did not again interrupt the silence, a silence that to judge by the faces of both was pleasant to both. Till Mrs. Dara came in, who indeed could not be very long absent, then Faith left her place, sat down on a low seat by her mother and gressingly took possession of her hands and arms. She made no more startling propositions that night of going back to Pequod again, and the minutes of the evening flowed on, as such minutes do. The Sunday which followed was won as quietly happy as is often known in this world, and the next day was Christmas.


The market is still very, very strong. There was very, very aggressive profit-taking today. And again, that's the only way to describe it. Again, what materialistically is different today than it was yesterday, where it was for the last 10 days and accused people. Welcome to Access a Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability, and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process, and own your future. Hey, guys, good evening, everybody. Welcome to another edition of the AccessTrader.com nightly wrap-up show. Hope everybody did okay today. Very aggressive day today, especially in the morning, and then pretty aggressive self towards the end of the day. But let's kind of recap. So going into today's session, we knew two things. Number one, we didn't want to buy anything overextended. I think we kind of drilled that point home for everybody for a very, very long time.  That's the last thing you want to do. We also knew that the speculation money is absolutely going out of its way, just extraordinary. All you need to do is look at this. Now again, for all you guys who've seen this for the first time today, this kind of looks like a chart, right? This really does. So there was a stock today that went literally from like 12 to 160 bucks. And I have to say, you have to be on special pills, right? Not like pills that I'm on. You got to be on special pills to trade something like this. And to say use the word trade is really unfair to actually anybody who presses a button who's been doing this for a very long time. This is pure gambling. And I've said this for years and years and years. If this is what you're doing, right? If this is what you want out of your career or aspiring career, I'm telling you folks, it's easier to become a degenerate gambler, right? You got the NFL season, you got the NBA starting in a couple of weeks, okay? It's much easier. I'm telling you this day is long. It's much easier to bet the money line of a football game than do this, okay? I saw so many people today talking about the stock. Like, yeah, and again, it's crazy. Don't get me wrong. A stock going from 12 to 160. But when you look at the damn thing, and I looked at it for like 15 minutes, like I couldn't believe people were buying this thing. This thing was literally going, it was skipping dollars, getting halted into circuit halts every like 30 seconds, opening up $20 high. And then eventually people chasing all the way up to the $150 points. It got halted on a circuit breaker, opened that at 100, opened up at 40, and now the damn thing's at 80. So again, guys, if you want to trade for a living, again, avoid the Times Square bright lights, right? We've been talking about that for years and years. You don't want to trade with the bright lights. This is sexy, this is exciting. But this was also looked at as a powerball ticket to a lot of new traders. And again, if you made some money on this thing, God bless, but again, I have to imagine if somebody got caught in this thing, if you're buying a stock that goes from 30 to 150, right? And then holds down every 40, 50 points, it's a disaster. So again, guys, it really does represent how crazy this market is right now, but it also does represent why so many people become statistics. Just again, there's safer places that you can store your money. There's easier ways to kind of put stakes in your freezer. Again, don't skip steps in your learning curve, okay? It's sexy, it's aggressive, right? But it's not for you, right? It's not for you, it's definitely not for me. And like I said, today, I wouldn't put my mother-in-law's money into this thing, let alone mine. So again, guys, just try to be careful. Overall market, you know, extended, right? Cues were up 10 days in a row yesterday. Every day I've been saying this at Morning Strategy, avoid, avoid, avoid, avoid anything overextended because anything that's overextended on any pullback, that's gonna be the one that's gonna hit first. And you see all these examples today, you know? MRNA had this really, really aggressive pullback off its top. You had Roku, and again, you talk about big, big movers, but you had these big, big polls because again, when things get exhausted and buyers stop, like really, really stop and they get tired as well, that's when the polls come. Now again, materialistically, there's nothing wrong with the market.  The, you know, the NASDAQ down 270 points, look at the cues that were down seven points, just keep this in mind, right? Just really, really keep this in mind. When you have something going linear and there's a pullback, it's going to be dramatic, okay? It's gonna be exaggerated and it's gonna be scary. And if you were a conscious trader and you always have your eye and we talk about this pretty much on every update in the last month or so, just because how aggressive the market's been, we've been talking about the musical chair effect. So if you're conscious of the idea that anything can get pulled at any time, you're not gonna put yourself in a position that you're buying something that's up 20 days in a row, that's understood. But from the macro point of view, if you look at what the cues did today compared to what the Dow did today and the Dow did nothing, okay? The Dow was down 100 points. It did absolutely nothing and lightly back tested to the 10 day moving average. If you look at the IWM, hell, nothing happened. Nothing happened to the IWM. IWM is still going linear. It looked more exaggerated than it was. So I see a lot of people, especially newer traders, talking about this was the top. Okay, if you say so. Again, everything is subjective. Your top is the next man's pivot higher. So it's very important to kind of not jump the gun, not to kind of exaggerate what happened today. And if you look at a lot of names, right? Even the names that never participated in the rally over the last couple of weeks. Like, for example, I really liked that Amazon setup before today's session, right? I looked at Amazon, I looked, there's two days in a row. It stopped at the 50 day moving average. I looked at the 60 minute view. This was the pre-market view, right? I looked at the pre-market view and I said, look, if this thing could get above this channel it could run up and obviously it got pulled, right? It got pulled like everything else. But at least I'm looking for stocks that are coming at a bottom channel. So for example, and we'll talk about the pivots in a second, if you look at DraftKings, right? It wasn't really overextended. It was just coming out of a channel here, trying to confirm the five day moving average. If you look at Square, and this is, you know, Square was my big play of the day. I mean, we talked about this 215 channel. That's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, nine days, nine days consolidation. Again, at least you have a basis that if things got really, really aggressive you knew your vital points where things need to reclaim and things where they get rejected. Luckily, this was really a huge move day from the 15 to the 20 area. But the point is, again, we're still trading under control. Again, you guys, you could be wrong every single day. And I've kind of explained this over and over again. You could be wrong every single day in your theory, right? As long as you're not pigheaded and don't be wrong financially. It's okay to be wrong. Everybody's wrong. We're wrong every single day. Again, that's what the whole point of using your brain, having your brain work for you.  You're not really a trader. You're just a person who clicks a mouse and hopes to God it works, right? So you have to use your brain. And it's okay to be wrong. It's okay to be wrong theoretically. But again, just do not be wrong financially. So before anybody jumps off the bridge tonight and starts canceling Christmas and starts canceling Hanukkah and everything good stuff, just remember where we are, right? We had a 10-day move. We hit supply. We hit the 10-day moving average. And we reclaimed it on the close. Now again, if tomorrow we start taking the bottom of this channel out, can there be another move down to the 297, 296 level? Sure, of course. Again, at least I'm prepared for that. I do have some shorts that I like. I do have a couple of longs that I like. But again, there's nothing that I'm dying to do tomorrow. Like for example, Zoom, we started watching today, right? We started watching it. And again, it closed above, closed below this level. And now it looks like it's going lower. There's a lot of names that look like that. But again, ironically, as this sounds, if you look, for example, like on Amazon, right? If you look at Amazon, it hasn't even begun, even though it didn't participate, it hasn't even come close to the bottom of the channel. If you look at Netflix today and it got pulled pretty hard, look how much it still needs to go through just to even break down. Even the video, right? That I kind of like tomorrow on the downside. Well, hell, if it didn't break out, shouldn't it break down? At least in the video, look, I'm watching this bottom channel here and it has to pierce it. But again, the moral of the story is these stocks are not even close to breaking down. There's very, very few of them. Yeah, you could find the JK Solars that look pretty decent, maybe taking down this channel here. Okay, they look pretty good to the downside as well. There's several other names as well. But again, it's not one of those situations that if you get a gap down in the futures tomorrow, you could turn around and look at 20 different stocks and say, wow, these are five star shorts. You have to be very, very careful not to kind of paint yourself in the corner going into tomorrow's session. Because again, at the end of the day, the market is still very, very strong. There was very, very aggressive profit taking today. And again, that's the only way to describe it. Again, what materialistically is different today than it was yesterday, where it was for the last 10 days that the cues turned green every single day. Again, are you gonna use really Tesla as a barometer? Well, oh my God, Tesla reversed today. It must be the end of the market. Tesla just ran, literally has run from $450 to 650 in the last three weeks, last two and a half, three weeks. What are you gauging Tesla as a barometer of where the market's possibly gonna go next? I mean, look at this thing.  I'm gonna start shorting this thing below 588 and you could, okay, knowing that again, there are guys that are sitting there. If you watch the order flow today turning around, you literally sit there and they're watching and they're buying 650 weekly, 700 for next weeks, are you really, really comfortable to get short ahead of an inclusion? I go, I'm not, right? I know I'm not. I'm not smart enough to do so. And nor do I have any interest of being a sacrificial lamb. So again, tomorrow's session is not cut and dry, right? I think again, you have to be an adult about it. You have to wait for the setups to set up tomorrow, both long and short. And granted, because of today's move, you're going to find some names, some more names to the downside possibilities in the upside. But the moral of the story is again, SPAC names are still ridiculous. The fact that people are chasing stocks like this, right? It really does show you there's absolutely no fear in this market. When you have no fear in the market, again, it's very, very hard to get a lot of selling pressure without isolated days like we saw today. So again, we'll see what happens tomorrow. So other than that, pretty aggressive session today. It was pretty much the morning. And then just everything got pulled at once. So let's talk about it. Apple upgraded what Bush today, 160, 125 is a sneaky area. 125, 50 macro needs to build. Problem was again, everything got pulled and obviously Apple is not going to be any different. So it took out the 25, right? Here took out this whole channel, took out the 25, took out 25 and a half. And unfortunately only went to 126. It really did pick kind of a bad day to break out because everything got pulled and obviously got pulled with it. But again, dollar move in Apple. I know some of you guys took the move. Boeing really didn't do anything. It put an initial move through 240, ran up about a buck and then did nothing. Amazon, I was watching for that 3190, never even came close. Square was definitely the trade of the day. At least for me, 215 needs to build. And look at the candle it put up. I mean, that was a beautiful, beautiful. So this is a whole channel that was nine days into making. It finally cleared out 215. And it literally went to 220 on one candle very, very quickly. Great job. I mean, really, really big move there. LMPX, very, very thin stock. It put up a small move over 31 and it just kind of pulls there where everything else just collapsed. Gogo never got anywhere close. Nikola took out the 1938, put him to high of like 1958. Never gave us a second entry. Draft Kings was really, really aggressive. Good job for all you guys that did catch this. 51 got rejected twice, needs to build. Look at Draft Kings, what this thing did. It took out 51, right? Took out this whole channel of 51 and put up a really big move to 53 and a half. So good job for all you guys who caught that as well. You know, so here was ZM, as here was ZM. At first I told, initially I put in the pivot of 404, right? Initially I put in the pivot of 404 with a confirmation of 394 to the downside. And then I turned around and said, guys, never mind. It's acting too well pre-market. It was only down like six, seven bucks. And then later, once it started cracking, I'll show you in a second, there was another pivot here. ASA never got there. Big move again in square. Here comes 220 supply on these 26 on deck. Draft King just exploded on the way back up. Yeah, so I put this back in the channel on ZM a little bit later. And I said 393, if it confirms macro, can get hit 366 measured potential. Once the market started dying, obviously you're gonna go with the one. That's gonna be the weakest one. And if you look at Zoom, it finally cracked at 393 level and closed really nicely. Had a nice little move here. If this thing confirms, and that's another thing, if Zoom, and this is one of the cleaner trades for tomorrow, and obviously you have a big macro area here coming up as well, if there is another day or so of selling, and you start getting more and more vaccine news, this thing could be a very, very aggressive move. So first close below this rising support of 393, trade down to 381, if this thing confirms tomorrow, it could test back the 366 level. And if that 366 loses, you got a lot of room coming down all the way down to the 330. So I think tomorrow you have to be a little bit more patient. You have to be a little bit more flexible. I don't think you can sensationalize what happened today because again, at the end of the day, the NASDAQ 100 was up 10 days in a row. We talked about this. So it wasn't really a big shock factor that everything got pulled. It's more of a shock factor that you weren't, somebody wasn't prepared and they say, well, who could have seen this coming? Well, the NASDAQ 100 is up 10 days in a row. So it's very, very important to know where your problem areas might occur before the trading session starts. So that's it. You know, that's it guys. Have a great night everybody. Stay patient for tomorrow. Let the channels develop. Let the market tell us if today was a one day of just randomized selling after a big run, two week run in the queues, or is there gonna be something more down the road? Guys, have a great night everybody. God bless and I'll see you all tomorrow.


The human mind is responsible for a lot of things, including success and failure. For instance, do you know that rich people think alike? Likewise, poor people, they think alike as well. So, if these two categories of people think alike, does it mean that their world status affects their way of thinking or their thought pattern affects their world status? Of course, it's the latter. You see, money doesn't change a person. Neither does fame nor any other thing you can think of at the moment.  It's also responsible for the decisions that you make when it comes to specific financial plans and decisions. Again, our thought pattern is responsible for what our lives look like right now. Circumstances may not have favored you at some point, but the way you choose to see the situation you are in will determine if you're forever going to remain a victim or create your success story from it. Idou Koenikon, an organizational consultant and author, said, the mind has a powerful way of attracting things that are in harmony with it, good and bad. According to Steve Mariboli, an internet radio commentator and author, once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.  In this video, I'll share with you the new mindsets needed to succeed in the 21st century. If you're new here, consider subscribing so that you don't miss out on exciting videos like this. 1. Develop a growth mindset Until you develop a growth mindset, you might not be able to dream big. At best, you'll do a lot of wishful thinking, but that's it. People with a fixed mindset accept everything the way they are. They believe nothing will ever change, no matter what they do. So, they learn to accept and live with whatever situation they find themselves, pleasant or not. However, a growth mindset comes with believing that achieving success is all about continuous and consistent improvement. Successful people see success as a journey, not a final destination, but they are in a hurry to get. They want to enjoy the process and learn on the way because they know that they'll need all that they have learned to proceed in the journey. So, they are happy to keep trying until they achieve what they want. They are willing to try all kinds of strategies and techniques, even though they don't succeed at their first attempt. Because they know they'll eventually get where they want to go. Carol Dweck, a mindset expert and author said, A fixed mindset is when people believe their basic qualities, intelligence, talents and abilities are just fixed traits. They have a certain amount and that's that. With a growth mindset, people believe that their talents and abilities can be developed over time through experience and mentorship. So, they push themselves and go for it. They are not always worried about how smart they are, how they'll look or what a mistake will mean. Dweck explained, they challenge themselves and grow. 2. Don't be scared of failure. Be willing to fail. Like success, failure isn't a destination as well. It's a part of the journey to success. It's a teacher that helps you learn a few things that will be essential on your way up the ladder of success. The main reason some people, especially entrepreneurs, aren't willing to take risk and try new things is that they are afraid of failure. They see it as the death of that career of business while successful people see it as a lesson to learn. To succeed, however, you should be willing to fail. If that's what it takes, because the only way to grow is to make mistakes. As a child, you didn't just stand up to begin to walk. No, you crawled and even fell on different occasions. But you got back on your feet and kept trying until you became strong enough and no longer fell. That's how growth works. Failure is only there to help you learn so that you don't make the same mistake twice. It is probably a risky decision to determine to go for your dream even if it means failing along the way. But stagnation is even worse. Remember, if you are not progressing, then you're failing. So you're better off taking chances. 3. Accept yourself Successful people know who they are and they do not try to meet up with other people's expectations of them. Successful people know their values, skills and abilities. They also know their strengths and weaknesses.  To succeed, you have to learn to accept yourself the way you are. Know what works for you and what you love doing. Do not try to be somebody else or do what other people are doing because that is what is responsible for their success. You are unique. Find what makes you different from the rest of the world and use it to your advantage. 4. Create a long-term vision, not short-term goals You can't get to the finish line of a race if you don't know where it is. To be successful, you need to know where your priorities lie. What are your long-term goals? For instance, you can't keep switching jobs, trying all kinds of businesses, etc. if you intend to succeed. I mean, it shows that you do not know where your finish line is so you're just checking every line out to see what you might like. That's clumsy. You see, if you don't have a long-term goal, you cannot create an effective short-term strategy to help you achieve that goal. So, figure out your long-term goal if you genuinely want to succeed. 5. Don't be scared to break the rules Sometimes, the rules do nothing but play it safe for people. It keeps people in their comfort zone. However, it is the people who move fast and defy the convention that change the world. Think about some of the greatest inventors that exist. They became great because they thought outside the box and created something that no one ever imagined. 6. Adopt a gratitude mindset and celebrate others According to Angie Zimmerman, a mindset expert and author, another important factor is cultivating gratitude by celebrating and sincerely being happy for other people's successes in life. You cannot receive that which you resent. Therefore, if you resent or are upset about other people's success, you cannot achieve the level of success you desire. Instead of focusing on the things that you don't have yet and getting worried and upset that you don't have them, how about looking back at where you came from and be grateful? It will help you keep a cheerful mind. When you're happy from within, with yourself and your achievements, you'll be encouraged to keep moving on. 7. Be positive Your perspective in life can determine whether you will be successful or not. When you think positively, every obstacle will be surmountable, no matter how scary it may look. You'll also be motivated to keep going on until you get to your destination, even when there is a lot of pressure around you to quit your dreams and go for something else. So, if you want to succeed in the 21st century, you need to choose a positive perspective always.


OK, next up, please welcome to the stage Joseph LaFredo, coming to us from the University of Albany SUNY. The title of his presentation is a Survey of MPD, Micro-Pulse Dial, Differential Absorption LiDAR Data. Joseph participated in the 2022 Undergraduate Leadership Workshop, which is another program I have the pleasure of getting to run alongside Tim Barnes. He came out for a week as part of a cohort of about 20 students, and we got to bring him back here this year for a full internship experience based in research. Oh, hello. Can you hear me? Is that working? All right, cool. Yeah, thank you, Jerry. And yes, hi, I'm Joseph LaFredo. I got the wonderful opportunity to work with Tammy Weckworth at the Earth Observing Laboratory here at NCAR. Our research focused on doing a survey of MPD, which is a Micro-Pulse Dial, Differential Absorption LiDAR, its data from different field campaigns.  There we go. Yes, so just to give you some background on how this project came about and the motivations for it, over the last 15 to 20 years there have been several calls from the National Research Council to have improved measurements of the thermodynamic profile of the atmospheric boundary layer, the atmospheric boundary layer being the lowest 2 to 3 kilometers of the atmosphere. And there's a number of reasons for why improved thermodynamic profiles would help forecasters, and I'll get into that much later on. But so the MPD was developed by Montana State and the Earth Observing Laboratory. And it's a tool that's still in development to today. And one of the main benefits, I'm not going to get too technical into what the MPD actually how works, but one of the really big benefits to some other existing technologies is that it takes direct measurements, meaning that there's no external calibration required. And that's a really big benefit. And on the right side of the screen, the top right, you can see on the top that's the MPD and the plop below it is a microwave radiometer. And this is measuring water vapor in the atmosphere. And as you can see, the MPD has a really high vertical resolution of water vapor as well as the microwave radiometer is a passive remote sensor. And that goes into what I was just saying about the need for calibration. And so I have the New York State Mesonet logo up there because they use microwave radiometers in their Mesonet. And one of the big challenges that they have is constantly having to calibrate their sensors and them not being very accurate. The MPD is something that might not replace the microwave radiometer, but can be a tool that can greatly enhance forecasts. And again, I'll get into more of how it can help forecasting later on. But yeah, so on the bottom of this, you can see that this is kind of the plot that I'll be showing for the duration of this talk. So I'm going to get you familiar with it. So on the bottom, this is water vapor measured by the MPD. It goes up to about three to four kilometers, at least measuring for the boundary layer. It can go a bit higher than that, but we don't really care about that in most cases. And then on the top is relative backscattering, which can go all the way up to 12 kilometers. So yeah, I'll be showing plots that look a lot similar to this. So just kind of get your bearings with that. Also, this is 50 days worth of data, and there's no downtime on the MPD. So this is also showcasing the potential for a network of MPDs. And this was from the Pecan Field Campaign. And you might be wondering what the Field Campaign is. So it took place in North America, predominantly in Kansas. And on the right side of your screen, you can see that orangey yellow, I don't know what color it is, box, that's the domain of the Field Campaign. I also have pointed out where the MPD actually was located and also where a radar was located. So one of the big advantages of having the MPD out on several different field campaigns is all the different observational tools that were co-located with the MPD. And so I'll get into some cases where different atmospheric phenomena passed overhead of the MPD to just show how useful it can be.  That downdraft has evaporatively cool air that rushes out on all sides, but more so in the direction of where the mean wind is in the atmospheric boundary layer. So here we have a case from July. That shouldn't be July 2nd, it should be June 7th. But here you can see at around 430 UTC a gust front passes overhead of the MPD, and that's illustrated on the S-pole radar at the top right. And as it passes overhead, there is an increase in the water vapor imagery, and that's what you would expect as you have evaporatively cool air rushing out ahead or along that gust front. And additionally, I have a wind profiler that was co-located with the MPD. And you can see an updraft when it passes overhead. That's what you would expect as there's a mesoscale boundary passing through. And then at the end of that loop, you can start to see the gust front actually starts to transition into an atmospheric bore. And you might be wondering what an atmospheric bore is. So an atmospheric bore can originate from a lot of different sources, but for the sake of this talk, you can think of it as just some sort of density current like a gust front shooting out from some sort of convection. And that gust front will and its associated updraft will interact with a buoyancy gradient that exists usually in the form of a stable layer in the atmosphere. And the gust front, which is now turning into a bore, will oscillate along that stability gradient. And you get something like what we see here from, all my days are messed up. That's so weird. No, no, it's not. July 2. So you can see I have the regular MPD image here on the left. And it shows a couple of really interesting things. First off, an elevated moist layer, which is something that we can't really get a lot of profiles for. So this is another kind of advantage of having the MPD. But then on the right, I zoom in to this interesting area where we can see some sort of oscillation or some sort of bouncing around that you can see in the relative back-scattering and also in the water vapor imagery. And looking at some of our observational tools, first this sounding that was taken from about 6 UTC, which is a bit before we actually see that oscillation occur, we can see that we have a stable layer just above the surface, which is an inversion. So that's showing you the potential for an atmospheric bore to exist. And then on the right side of the screen, you can see a radar image where it starts a little bit after the bore has already kind of formed. But as you can see in that radar image, there's no convection visible on the radar, which is just even more evidence that this is a bore because bores can travel and propagate for long periods of time far away from where they may have initiated as a gust front. So yeah, this was a pretty cool case. Next, I'm going to show you a cold front. All you have to really know about a cold front, cold air advancing. There can be upward vertical motion in front of it and downward vertical motion or subsidence behind it. So here's the case. June 28th, around 18 UTC, a cold front passes overhead of the MPD. And we see a drying out of the atmospheric boundary layer. And you can see that also at the top of your screen on the wind profiler, again, co-located with the MPD. It's a little bit difficult to see. And it's actually kind of cool that you can't actually just see only a downdraft after it passes. But there's in the vertical velocity, which is the middle plot, I should explain that. You can see these red and blue kind of streaks up from the ground. And those are associated up and downdrafts. And we call that horizontal convective rolls, which are very common during the development of the convective boundary layer. And so normally after a cold front passes through, you would expect just large-scale subsidence. But because you have daytime heating, you have this turbulence in the boundary layer. And it's not very visible on the MPD. That's just because these horizontal convective rolls weren't condensing out into clouds, so it's not visible on the relative backscattering. But I'll get into more about what a horizontal convective roll is. Yeah, so as I kind of just explained, you have the development of the convective boundary layer after the sun rises. It heats the earth. And the moisture level typically increases, but not always. And you can get this differential heating that occurs that can cause associated up and downdrafts that can lead to cloud streets if it can condense out. And I'm going to show you two days worth of data for this next plot. So I'm also going to show you a mesoscale convective system or an MCS passing overhead of the MPD. What you have to know for an MCS is just that it's a complex of thunderstorms that can propagate for long periods of times. They can shoot out gust fronts. And yeah, let's take a look at it. So yeah, this is a really awesome plot, I think, because it shows off so many different things that the MPD can actually capture. So firstly, in the first couple of hours we see that from about 1 and 1 half kilometers up in the water vapor imagery, it's very dry. And I have four soundings here, starting from 0z and going all the way to 6z. And we can see an elevated mix layer from about, like, 850 kilometer hectopascals. And it's already decaying. And that's evident because the temperature profile, which is in red, is already not dry adiabatic. And the blue, which is the dew point, is already not so much following the mixing ratio. But, and that's evident in the MPD, as around for UTC, we see that the atmospheric boundary layer, starting from about 1 and 1 half kilometers up, starts to moisten up. And then as the day continues to heat up the ground, we see the development of the atmospheric of the convective boundary layer and horizontal convective rules. Unfortunately, there was not a great satellite imagery at this time. So all I have is just a radar image of what horizontal convective rules can look like on the radar. But you can also kind of see it in the relative backscattering and those little blips that pop up from about 16 to 22 UTC before some convection initiates. And then we see a residual layer from about 24 UTC all the way to 30 UTC. That's just that moist layer sticking around overnight. And then around 30, I think, 38 UTC, there's this kind of blank area in the MPD. And that's because there's precipitation and bright clouds the MPD can't see through that. And that's because there's an MCS passing overhead. And you can see that on the top right, that's a mosaic. So it's not just the S-pole.  And that MCS passes overhead. And it quickly decays just right after it passes overhead of the MPD. And so you can see that the atmospheric boundary layer dries out really fast before it tries to kind of rejuvenate itself and moisten back up. But it doesn't have a lot of time. And also there's not a lot of sunlight broken clouds. And so like I said earlier, the MPD is still in development. So this is from Rolopago, which was another field campaign that took place in Argentina in 2018. And at the very lowest part of the water vapor imagery, you can see these spikes of high water vapor and then low water vapor. And that's actually because the air conditioner inside of the MPD was turning on and causing condensation on all the sensors. And so they had never tested the MPD in a really moist environment like Argentina. So this was a good learning experience for them. They since have fixed that issue. And also you can see that the boundary layer really drastically dries out. And I tried looking at some observations to kind of see what was causing that. I came up with that it's probably some sort of downsloping because the MPD was right next to the Sierra de Córdoba. So that's a likely explanation for it, but I'm not 100% sure. And yeah, just some conclusions. The MPD is able to measure water vapor at a really high vertical resolution capturing different atmospheric phenomena. And also on water vapor imagery and relative backscattering. This can greatly help scientists and forecasters better understand the moisture in the boundary layer. Because we still are still learning a lot about moisture in the boundary layer to this very day. There's been a lot of research done with the MPD, like data assimilation into numerical weather models to enhance forecasting and predictability of areas where there is extreme rainfall. And it's been shown to increase accuracy in numerical weather models. And in the future, I hope to not only continue working with TAMI and potentially find more examples and submit them for a BAMS manuscript, but also just continuing working with the MPD as it continues to develop. And they implement temperature profiling and calibrated backscattering into the MPD. And yeah, thank you. Any questions? Do we have any questions from the audience? Daniel? Hi, Jeff. Hi. Great talk. So I know you just mentioned the spikes as a result of the air conditioning. So what were those solutions that they were taking into account? Yeah, that's a great question. Yeah, so I actually got to go see one of the MPDs at EOL. And it's actually kind of funny with the solutions that they came up with. So one of the problems was there's a glass window on the top of the MPD to allow for the radar or the LiDAR beam to shoot through.  And so what they did was they actually started blowing like 75 degree air constantly on just that glass to stop it from condensing up. It takes a lot of creativity to kind of solve some of these issues. So that was really, really cool. And yeah, it was really cool learning about it too and just getting to go and see. That was one of the first images that I had here on the left. This is the MPD. And the glass is right there. And there actually, that's the little box that's blowing 75 degree air just constantly onto that glass. So yeah, that was really cool. Thanks for the question. Any other questions? Also, Tammy's amazing. I don't know if I said that. But I love Tammy. She's in Norway. I'm very jealous of that. Hey, Joe. Hello. Great, great talk. Very interesting. And you already kind of said that you came from, I mean, with some background into this topic. But I'm curious if this experience has shifted your research interests, like broadened your horizons in any way. Yeah, that's a really great question. I'm actually really glad that you brought that up. So when I was trying to decide on a mentor to have for this internship, my area of research that I've done and my area of interest is in synoptic meteorology and just large-scale dynamics. So doing something that's really small-scale, almost micro-scale meteorology and working with an instrumentation, that was something that I'd never done before. But I had talked to Tammy and she was just amazing. And I thought that it'd be great to get outside of my comfort zone and work with an amazing scientist like her. So yeah, I think having done this project, I definitely have a greater appreciation for mesoscale meteorology and just working with instrumentation in general. Like as I explained with how they solved an issue with the condensation forming on the glass, it's just all so cool. So yeah, I plan to continue working with Tammy after this internship is done. So yeah, it's definitely changed my interest areas. Yeah, thank you for the question. Any more questions? Also thanks to Ben and Jerry. Oh, question. You guys are awesome as well. I didn't give you guys a shout out. I didn't think I'd have time. This might be a very, first of all, good job. Second of all, this might be a very easy question to answer, but you mentioned at the beginning that the height can be higher, but you don't care? Or you just ignore it? Yeah. What allows you to just ignore those data points? Or why do you just write them? So yeah, that's a good question. That was kind of just me. So we don't actually ignore it or anything. But typically, the MPD can't really see higher than a couple kilometers. And that's mainly because the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere quickly drops off as you go up in height. So really, you're just getting a profile of the thermodynamic atmospheric boundary layer as high as you can. But for instance, anything above three kilometers is really, really low in terms of its magnitude. So you don't really gain much information at all from it. So you're not really ignoring it, but yeah. That was just me, sorry. Great, great talk. Thanks. I was wondering, so the air conditioning, does the instrument itself need air conditioning, or is it? Oh, OK. Yeah, yeah. They need to be able to regulate the temperature inside. And there's a number of reasons for that. But again, one of the main reasons was to prevent problems like what happened, but having tested it in an environment like Boulder, where it was predominantly tested, or like Kansas, they didn't get to be in an environment like Argentina, which is a lot moister. So yeah, thank you. Fantastic work, Joe. Thank you so much.


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