What's with the constant angst and despondency around here?  

Despondency?

Where are the Easter people?
Where's the unshakeable faith?
Where's the cheerfulness?
Where's the resoluteness?

Not very New Testament like here at NCR. 

Why the long faces?

No depth, no interior life, no vitality.   Barren. 

Pentecost was only a couple of months ago or so.