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June 18, 2003
[on the roof, it's peaceful
[on the roof, it's peaceful as can be]
I love summer thunderstorms. It is the thing I miss most about the weather in the south. Today has been a perfect summer day. It started off warm (ie I didn’t need a coat when I left for work) and humid. This afternoon thunderstorms rolls in. the air was heavy with the smell of rain and the skies gray. It started raining a little as I walked from spac to tech – big, fat, warm drops that I’ve never seen here. The smell of rain has permeated our building. Our lab is dim without the mid afternoon sun shining in our west windows. I love this smell of rain – the smell of water in the air, of great big thunderstorms rolling through the sky.
I have spent many hours in many places enjoying the rain. In our first house in hot spring, I use to lay and read in my walk in closet because it was the best place to hear the rain hitting the roof. (it also annoyed my mother, which was an added bonus) Last summer sara and I would sit on the porch of her house in the rain. It was one of the most perfect places. We would swing and talk while the rain fell around us, but not on us. We had lots of words – a function of our lives then.
The person that you want to be right now doesn’t have to be the person you are forever.
I ponder this thought as I struggle between my current desire to close myself up in just a few people and my life’s tendency to pull me in the direction of many people.
sigh. airplane tickets can be such a pain in my butt. i don't even like to fly. (though i am fascinated by airplanes. they amaze me with thier science (and the relative primativeness of that science.) their long silver bodies gliding through the air is art to me)
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Posted by christina at June 18, 2003 11:02 PM