Thunderstorm

Ok, so I have just been lying on the bed looking out the window at the flooding rain during a most pleasant New York City thunderstorm. Amazing. Here is a view of what I saw.


I tried to take a picture from exactly my vantage point, but the window was closed and it came out very muddy. So just for the sake of art I opened the window and took this one. It was flooding in, but as soon as I cracked the window that smell of summer rain burst into the room and it was all worth it that my pillows got wet!

So watching the rain plummeting down and hearing the thunder (which has such a unique sound up here, very different from the thunder over the coastline of Savannah) I started thinking about energy. It is amazing how much energy is conveyed by the weather. On a sunny day, especially if it hasn't been sunny in a few days, you can physically feel the energy from the sun rays. It is warm and if you stop to notice how your skin feels, or how your breathing feels, or how your heart beats when it's sunny, you can tell there's an energetic difference than on a cloudy day. I think that's why several days in a row of overcast drizzle really feels like it sucks the life out of me. I imagine that's absolutely as low energy as possible that the sky can convey in the daytime. The clouds block the sun's vigor, the drizzle falling keeps everything feeling "down", and there isn't any wind. Ohhhh, the wind is so energetic. Those days in March, or when there's a windstorm in the winter, what ENERGY is felt when air suddenly starts moving so strongly! Out of NOWHERE! I love wind. But a good downpour, even without lightening and thunder, conveys nice energy too - driving, beating, pushing, grounding. Ohh, and lightening, how exciting! Every time a flash of lightening happens it's like it zaps me with a little zing of power. And in the evenings, when there's heat lightening, or even streaks, ohhh I can hardly contain myself. It's as exciting as fireworks for a five year old on the 4th of July.

Speaking of fireworks, I was planning to go to the South Street Seaport tonight to see Alison play with the Brooklyn Philharmonic, where they shoot off fireworks at the end. Well, not sure about that now that the sky has opened up! We'll see.

Just a little insight to my afternoon ponderings. Here's a picture that makes me smile whenever I look at it.
Love! Luci