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amonkie · 08-18-2004, 10:06 PM

It was brought to my attention that my signature(which is currently off so I can post this quasi journal entry) seems a bit at odds to my expressed opinion on rain and rainstorms. Of the top ten things I love about being alive, rain is up there at 3 or 4. However, my life has a way of teaching me that when I wish for certain things, I end up getting the exact opposite. To counter my problem, I've decided to plead with Mother Nature to keep her precious rain far far away from this dead desert. And whadya know, we've been getting rain! It WORKED! I KNEW it would

While I do realize too much of anything can be a bad thing(ie Charley when you add wind), we get rain so seldom here that I think it should be a statewide, or at least a city wide holiday.

As it stands, so few people here know how to actually drive in the rain (I wonder why

) that it's always a mess on the roads when we do get a decent storm. So I prefer to find a place outside out of a direct lightning path, close my eyes, and just breathe in the smell, the wind that caress my hand and brings wetness to my cheeks. It always seems to be that the rain and wind drown out the sounds of everything else. Our storms here don't send rain in depressing grey clouds - We get the building dust wall of brown, and then as the sun sets for the day, it brings purple, orange, pink, dark blue tints to the clouds that are illuminated when the lightning starts jumping from cloud to cloud. That smell of rain seems to bring a promise, or at least the pretense of waking up the next morning with a whole new world before my eyes. It's amazing to wake up the morning after a storm to see hardly any clouds in sight, and the temperature right back up in the 115 degree range. The next task becomes surviving through the heat and the building humidity until the next storm graces my eyes with its presence.

The year doesn't seem right if I don't get my month of monsoon storms.... I think wherever I end up in this world through my life, I will always consider Arizona to be my home for the months of July and August- you have to take the worst the desert has to offer in order to be rewarded with some of the most awe inspiring moments I remember. Funny how so much of life is like that.

08-18-2004, 10:06 PM	#20 (permalink)
amonkie Drifting Administrator Location: Windy City	Reverse Wishful Thinking It was brought to my attention that my signature(which is currently off so I can post this quasi journal entry) seems a bit at odds to my expressed opinion on rain and rainstorms. Of the top ten things I love about being alive, rain is up there at 3 or 4. However, my life has a way of teaching me that when I wish for certain things, I end up getting the exact opposite. To counter my problem, I've decided to plead with Mother Nature to keep her precious rain far far away from this dead desert. And whadya know, we've been getting rain! It WORKED! I KNEW it would While I do realize too much of anything can be a bad thing(ie Charley when you add wind), we get rain so seldom here that I think it should be a statewide, or at least a city wide holiday. As it stands, so few people here know how to actually drive in the rain (I wonder why ) that it's always a mess on the roads when we do get a decent storm. So I prefer to find a place outside out of a direct lightning path, close my eyes, and just breathe in the smell, the wind that caress my hand and brings wetness to my cheeks. It always seems to be that the rain and wind drown out the sounds of everything else. Our storms here don't send rain in depressing grey clouds - We get the building dust wall of brown, and then as the sun sets for the day, it brings purple, orange, pink, dark blue tints to the clouds that are illuminated when the lightning starts jumping from cloud to cloud. That smell of rain seems to bring a promise, or at least the pretense of waking up the next morning with a whole new world before my eyes. It's amazing to wake up the morning after a storm to see hardly any clouds in sight, and the temperature right back up in the 115 degree range. The next task becomes surviving through the heat and the building humidity until the next storm graces my eyes with its presence. The year doesn't seem right if I don't get my month of monsoon storms.... I think wherever I end up in this world through my life, I will always consider Arizona to be my home for the months of July and August- you have to take the worst the desert has to offer in order to be rewarded with some of the most awe inspiring moments I remember. Funny how so much of life is like that.