Bright July skies
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The breaks in the cloud are faint, but cannot be dismissed! |
The sun isn't shining, a menacing marine layer keeping those of us along the North Coast aching in the gray. However to the southeast a break in the mundane is trying to emerge. This delicious light stirs me to write this post, because despite it being the high days of summer, our landscape has felt like the dark days of late autumn for too damn long.
A metaphor perhaps for all that blankets our current world scene? Sure! Big ugly legislation, miserable conditions everywhere we turn, natural disasters wreaking havoc, tender souls wrenched from reality; all these traumas want to strip our joy, leave us bereft. I woke to another gray morning, assuming the flat dull horizon would remain. However peeks of brightness remind me that all is not lost. Goodness prevails.
Does this mean the sun and blue sky are about to muscle in, shoving the dreariness aside? No. The marine layer is far too entrenched for that to occur AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME. But EVENTUALLY the marine layer will lose its persnickety strong will, rendering the gray obsolete. WHEN that will happen I don't know, October maybe? Or in an hour possibly. This darkness and cruelty will not last forever.
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Never has the sun looked more beautiful. Or hopeful, might I add. |
Okay, time to check the chicks. Do they notice the extra brightness today? Probably not, but I do. I notice, embrace it, and smile in thanksgiving.