When one finds anger, one can approach exhausting it in a number of different ways. A few deep breaths. A mantra. A walk around the block. Prescription and/or recreational drugs (not that it’s condoned, just saying).

Or, you can park yourself on a couch and watch the late great United States Air Force veteran Bob Ross paint.

Because thanks to a brilliant someone in the world wide digital ether, all of the creative, fro-sporting episodes of the airman’s beloved old television show can now be found on YouTube.

It’s a shame they didn’t put them up a few months earlier, because there were plenty of people who could’ve used the free hypnotically-soothing viewing experience when President Barack Obama came out and told Americans that the highest peak on the continent, located in Alaska, will no longer be called “Mt. McKinley” — but rather by a Native American name: Denali.

But alas, what are you going to do?

Speaking of the old Mt. McKinley, here’s Ross painting the gorgeous, snowcapped landmass back on the very first season of his show, in 1983.

Ross enlisted in the Air Force at the tender age of 18, going on to serve as a medical records technician and was the first sergeant of the U.S. Air Force Clinic at Eielson Air Force Base in — believe it or not — Alaska.

According to Wikipedia, it was the first time he saw snow and mountains, which become a foundation of his later canvassed work.

The ubiquitous online encyclopedia goes on to mention this funny/quirky nibble about Ross and his hard-nosed military experience:

He developed his quick-painting technique to create art for sale in brief daily work breaks.[7] Having held military positions that required him to be, in his own words, “mean” and “tough”, “the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work”, Ross decided that if he ever moved on from the military, he would never scream again.

Which, if you’ve ever watched the show, explains a lot.