These clouds tonight go on infinitum
sailing by so low it seems we're inside em
and these purposeful clouds do not meander or stray as Wordsworth will say
They go straight South while the palette tonight is restricted to gray
as if looking out from a giant ashtray
or perhaps
as if looking to the mountain that day
in Pompeii.
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I wield the flail of lashing hail,
And whiten the green plains under,
And then again I dissolve it in rain,
And laugh as I pass in thunder
~Percy Bysshe Shelley
The day is done, and the darkness
Falls from the wings of Night,
As a feather is wafted downward
From an eagle in his flight.
-Longfellow
Oh Man, I just had one those, whatchya call it, profound insight things happen again. Gimme a minute. I must process this epi fanny.
A pattern has developed.
I have only to step outside my apartment and people move into my space and offer their assistance. I don't need it. No offense taken, it just surprises me and I refuse it.
Tick, tick, tick *turns dials, resets switches* attitude adjustment. I must learn to use this.
The teenage and twenty-something me had built in ways that invited people inside his home. The adult me does not. I should take people up on their offers with the goal in mind to have them upstairs for a refreshing beverage as the young me would do automatically without even thinking about it.
The insight was their offers are their ways of inviting that type of contact and I've been rejecting them all along. I'm such a dummkopf sometimes such as most the time. Jeeze.
Like this.
"Need any help with that?"
"No. Yeah, Sure, You know what? I'm fine this second but I wipe out upstairs unloading. One time I was so exhausted I fell asleep and the ice cream melted."
That kind of thing. Exaggeration, to test my new theory. It's just that I don't want to put people out but I don't want to be so careful I shut them out.
Note to self *writes on arm* be more open to unsolicited assistance for fun.
Speeding up the frames is effective.
I watch radar rain to time bike errands. One important thing is that rain doesn't move. it depends more on whether air is going up, creating new rain, or down, extinguishing existing rain. What you see on radar is movement plus the creation and elimination of rain by waves going up and down that you have to infer.
So the rain might be moving towards you fast, but the leading edge gets no closer as new rain in back replaces old rain in front. That's very common.
Clouds are the same, just less rainy.
I love how you can see the pointy peaks in the strip of light.
Flowing water.
Living in upstate New York half the days from late fall to spring are cloud-gray like that. Same for rh I bet.
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