it's sunday evening following a whole night and day of rain – sometimes even heavy, wake-you-up-in-the-middle-of-the-night, wild, wonderful rain. it's been an unusually wet summer in santa fe, and most of us are loving it, as are the plants and the ground, drinking up the moisture. sometimes rain makes us want to tuck in and settle down with a book and a cup of tea or watch a movie or just snooze. but even amidst some of my own internal gloominess i geared up an went out in it and oh, what a treat! and because i had the benefit of waterproof shoes and a raincoat, i just let it fall upon me, feeling and listening to the drops in their abundant rhythms and textures, bouncing through puddles without a care. and just like the flowers and tomatoes and any number of things alive and growing, i too felt nourished, lighter in my spirit, somehow cleansed.
it's from this place i begin. well fed and following the the new moon (yesterday at 1:58pm, santa fe time), and the last day of august, i embark upon this blog - a place to share the rain with you, a place to be with you. it's a good time for beginnings, i think.
(photo: Copyright 2003 Phil Douglis)
