sometimes, through holes, one can see the sky

The college football season is nearly here - which means that (since there's a home game this Saturday - against Fresno State - please, surely, we should win that?) tents, marquees, tables etc are starting to sprout up all over canvas, creating some temporary ways of seeing.  Or, to put it another way - since it was a long, long day, including two department meetings (in different departments), one of which I had to chair - to put it another way: every silver tent has an unclouded blue lining.  Or somesuch.