Today is a grey, cool, rainy day. What a perfect start to the post-summer season and what an incredible mirror to how I’m feeling. I really love when that happens!
To top it off, I love the rain and I love lightening storms. Today, I have both and it makes me smile.
To amp up that feeling: On my drive into work, U2’s “Beautiful Day” played. Most people wouldn’t have connected those words to a grey, cool, rainy day. I did. And it made me smile.
Moments to connect and appreciate.
Showing posts with label lightening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lightening. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Friday, August 10, 2012
Moments D108: Dry Lightening
Today was a very special day as it was one of my besties’ birthday. It’s not really significant that it was a milestone birthday (at least not for me), but it was incredibly meaningful for me to have spent her birthday evening with her.
It was just the two of us. We shared a bottle of wine and good conversation before dinner. We puttered about and prepared for the following day’s BBQ party. We shared another bottle of wine. We shared a bourbon (ah, Bulleit!) and we watched a lightening storm.
There was no rain. There was no thunder (audible to our ears). It was dry, dark and striking. The sky flickered. It taunted. Was the storm coming or going? The sky flashed, definitely coming….then it calmed….definitely going. Then it twinkled, the kind of lightening that dances in the clouds but never leaves them to touch the ground. It was a delightful show. We watched, at times, in complete silence just absorbing the view and energy in the air.
It was such a peaceful, beautiful moment to share with my best friend on her very special day. I feel fortunate to have been a part of that moment.
Moments with friends.
Moments in nature.
It was just the two of us. We shared a bottle of wine and good conversation before dinner. We puttered about and prepared for the following day’s BBQ party. We shared another bottle of wine. We shared a bourbon (ah, Bulleit!) and we watched a lightening storm.
There was no rain. There was no thunder (audible to our ears). It was dry, dark and striking. The sky flickered. It taunted. Was the storm coming or going? The sky flashed, definitely coming….then it calmed….definitely going. Then it twinkled, the kind of lightening that dances in the clouds but never leaves them to touch the ground. It was a delightful show. We watched, at times, in complete silence just absorbing the view and energy in the air.
It was such a peaceful, beautiful moment to share with my best friend on her very special day. I feel fortunate to have been a part of that moment.
Moments with friends.
Moments in nature.
Monday, July 23, 2012
Moments D90: Crescent Moon Lightening
This evening the skies filled with dark rain filled clouds. The sun broke through them for most of the evening allowing my volleyball team to play on the beach for 2 hours.
The clouds and sun fought for the entire time. Moments it was dark and foreboding. Moments the rays of sun were brilliant and breaking through the darkness. Moments the sun was highlighting some of the most beautiful clouds I’ve seen in some time.
This is what it looked like as I was leaving the beach this evening:
But today’s moment wasn’t this conglomeration of moments watching the clouds and sun battle it out for presence in the sky during my time on the beach.
The best moment was driving home after picking up dinner. It was just before 10pm. The sky was a gorgeous twilight blue. (This is my favourite colour of sky, that blue that is indigo, with a hint of purple and lit from within.) There was this perfect crescent moon in the Western sky. The sky to the West was perfectly clear. Not a cloud to be seen. Just to the South of the crescent moon was a big billowing white cloud. Within this pretty puffy cloud was a dance of lightening. It was frantic. It filled the cloud. It was the perfect combination of calm (the naked crescent moon) and chaos (the frantic lightening within the cloud) being displayed side-by-side.
It was a moment that made me pause.
It was a moment that made me consider those close to me that fear the storms I love so dearly to watch. I hope that one day, we can sit and enjoy a storm together. Without pain and fear filling the atmosphere. A day where only awe and joy exist for this fascinating dance of nature.
A small moment, but so much deeper beneath the surface. Ah yes, always digging deeper.
The clouds and sun fought for the entire time. Moments it was dark and foreboding. Moments the rays of sun were brilliant and breaking through the darkness. Moments the sun was highlighting some of the most beautiful clouds I’ve seen in some time.
This is what it looked like as I was leaving the beach this evening:
But today’s moment wasn’t this conglomeration of moments watching the clouds and sun battle it out for presence in the sky during my time on the beach.
The best moment was driving home after picking up dinner. It was just before 10pm. The sky was a gorgeous twilight blue. (This is my favourite colour of sky, that blue that is indigo, with a hint of purple and lit from within.) There was this perfect crescent moon in the Western sky. The sky to the West was perfectly clear. Not a cloud to be seen. Just to the South of the crescent moon was a big billowing white cloud. Within this pretty puffy cloud was a dance of lightening. It was frantic. It filled the cloud. It was the perfect combination of calm (the naked crescent moon) and chaos (the frantic lightening within the cloud) being displayed side-by-side.
It was a moment that made me pause.
It was a moment that made me consider those close to me that fear the storms I love so dearly to watch. I hope that one day, we can sit and enjoy a storm together. Without pain and fear filling the atmosphere. A day where only awe and joy exist for this fascinating dance of nature.
A small moment, but so much deeper beneath the surface. Ah yes, always digging deeper.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Moments - D9 - Storms
I love to sit and listen with my eyes closed. I like how the music of rain drops tickles my ears and how the flashes of light can be seen beyond my closed eyes. My senses seem to be heightened....I am lost in the storm's sights and sounds.
Oh how I love a good rain storm.
Moments where you close your eyes and just live in the moment.
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