Monday, October 25, 2010
And This is Why It's Called Fall
Sitting at the dining room table - in what's left of our nearly-totally-packed dining room - it's serenely quiet, with all asleep but me , at this early hour.
Then, suddenly yet subtly, a hear a rushing/softly roaring sound behind me and i turn to look out the window and see that the sky has darkened, the wind is blowing like crazy, and the lush trees around are giving it all up to the wind: their leaves are pouring, pouring, showering to the ground, as if to say : "Here , take them! You want them so bad? Then TAKE THEM!" . Little sharply colored bits of gold and red and orange are being flung to the ground, and because they are being flung, they are FALLING - with grace - but violently falling nonetheless! It's so clear , with the deep wet gray backdrop of rainy weather ahead, that these leaves are descending in dense masses of sparking color, that it is as if someone has drawn them to look like the quintessence of Fall...once again, the gray sets off the colors magnificently ...and i think of the time I was traveling across country from California to New York, in a comfy sleeper car on AMTRAC:
We were crossing Kansas or some such place with utterly flat landscape, (I mean totally flat land as far as the eye could see), and it was late at night and a thunder storm began to rage and I lay there in my cozy berth, watching the rain streak my train car windows with rivulets of silvery water, when suddenly:
I saw an entire electric streak of lightening flash brightly against the dark sky, stand on its tiptoe and hold there, dancing, on the plains, with its jagged "arms" held wildly up tot he skies, as if to say: "LOOK AT ME, puny human, AND SEE WHAT GOD REALLY LOOKS LIKE WHEN HE GETS HIS MOJO WORKIN'!!!"...talk about Lord of the Dance! I mean, that lightening was dancing!!!
We think we're so great, we humans, but we are nothing..absolutely NOTHING ...next to the largeness, grandeur, power and energy of sheer WEATHER!
It doesn't take long - in fact minutes - for us to be put in our place, once a hurricane or a tornado decides to have its way with us, does it? We still cower in our caves when the sky turns black, the winds begin to blow, and our fragile stability is threatened with atmospheric change - not to mention - God forbid! water!
Rain drives entire cities insane! Have you ever been in NYC when a rainstorm hits? It's ridiculous! People are afraid of WATER!!! Hence the ocean of opened umbrellas that make it impossible to walk down 5th Avenue in the rain! And the more selfish the business man, the larger his "bumbershoot"!! I mean, c'MON: leave your golf umbrellas at the club guys! And the small, fragile folding umbrellas...? Well, you may as well not bother with those at all - just give it up and GET WET!!! You're going to anyway....Why are people so afraid of rain? Is it still all about the hair? DO we worry what people will think of us if our hair is flat...still? Or if it's messy? Do we REALLY still worry about that? Are we all still in high school?????????
ANYWAY: that's my brief meditation on weather....and now I have to take Sally and Cyrano, the cutest dachshunds in the world , out in it! Cyrano will leap about like the savage boy of the wild that he is...but Sally will look up at me like I have insane, expecting HER to pee in THIS? She will momentarily hate me...but I must not care: a mother must do what a mother must do to ensure that her kids do not pee on the floor! Watch out Sally and Cyr: here I come! Weather or not, here comes Mommy!
Then, suddenly yet subtly, a hear a rushing/softly roaring sound behind me and i turn to look out the window and see that the sky has darkened, the wind is blowing like crazy, and the lush trees around are giving it all up to the wind: their leaves are pouring, pouring, showering to the ground, as if to say : "Here , take them! You want them so bad? Then TAKE THEM!" . Little sharply colored bits of gold and red and orange are being flung to the ground, and because they are being flung, they are FALLING - with grace - but violently falling nonetheless! It's so clear , with the deep wet gray backdrop of rainy weather ahead, that these leaves are descending in dense masses of sparking color, that it is as if someone has drawn them to look like the quintessence of Fall...once again, the gray sets off the colors magnificently ...and i think of the time I was traveling across country from California to New York, in a comfy sleeper car on AMTRAC:
We were crossing Kansas or some such place with utterly flat landscape, (I mean totally flat land as far as the eye could see), and it was late at night and a thunder storm began to rage and I lay there in my cozy berth, watching the rain streak my train car windows with rivulets of silvery water, when suddenly:
I saw an entire electric streak of lightening flash brightly against the dark sky, stand on its tiptoe and hold there, dancing, on the plains, with its jagged "arms" held wildly up tot he skies, as if to say: "LOOK AT ME, puny human, AND SEE WHAT GOD REALLY LOOKS LIKE WHEN HE GETS HIS MOJO WORKIN'!!!"...talk about Lord of the Dance! I mean, that lightening was dancing!!!
We think we're so great, we humans, but we are nothing..absolutely NOTHING ...next to the largeness, grandeur, power and energy of sheer WEATHER!
It doesn't take long - in fact minutes - for us to be put in our place, once a hurricane or a tornado decides to have its way with us, does it? We still cower in our caves when the sky turns black, the winds begin to blow, and our fragile stability is threatened with atmospheric change - not to mention - God forbid! water!
Rain drives entire cities insane! Have you ever been in NYC when a rainstorm hits? It's ridiculous! People are afraid of WATER!!! Hence the ocean of opened umbrellas that make it impossible to walk down 5th Avenue in the rain! And the more selfish the business man, the larger his "bumbershoot"!! I mean, c'MON: leave your golf umbrellas at the club guys! And the small, fragile folding umbrellas...? Well, you may as well not bother with those at all - just give it up and GET WET!!! You're going to anyway....Why are people so afraid of rain? Is it still all about the hair? DO we worry what people will think of us if our hair is flat...still? Or if it's messy? Do we REALLY still worry about that? Are we all still in high school?????????
ANYWAY: that's my brief meditation on weather....and now I have to take Sally and Cyrano, the cutest dachshunds in the world , out in it! Cyrano will leap about like the savage boy of the wild that he is...but Sally will look up at me like I have insane, expecting HER to pee in THIS? She will momentarily hate me...but I must not care: a mother must do what a mother must do to ensure that her kids do not pee on the floor! Watch out Sally and Cyr: here I come! Weather or not, here comes Mommy!
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