The clearing sky can improve a day without solving the problem in it.

Weather changes how a difficulty feels without touching the difficulty. Light on a wall, warmth, a break in the rain, and the same unresolved problem is briefly easier to sit beside, which is neither an illusion nor a solution. Mood is part of your capacity, so anything that lifts it gives you more to work with. The trouble comes only from mistaking the lift for the answer and being surprised when the evening hands the problem back.

Take the good hour when it arrives and spend it on the hard thing. If that is beyond you today, take the hour anyway, since rest is not a failure of seriousness.