Colorado ties with Texas for 6th sunniest state in the USA. Who cares? The sun’s not racing against itself, why should it? I will not be buried in Elizabethport nor one of the Oranges like the rest of my clan. My body will not be flown home in a crate to be clucked over by who knows which Irish relatives. The way the sun rises here, clanging its huge cowbell, easing the East right out of you, you’d think everybody’d be tinted silt and rouge and worshipping The Bright Solar Prince of the Solar Palace. (Who?) I’m but one who recently drifted from old New Jersey, the 27th sunniest state where the sun shines 56% of the time. Don’t underestimate the operatic trill and maw of this western sun as it blazes over you and laughs behind the Rockies. It will draw you to it and sear you like a steak, Jersey girl, Golden Guernsey, little pail of milk