Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Thunder without Rain

Last night some thunderclouds rolled in, creating some lightning.
Today it is windy and cloudy and there is a sense of a storm.
I am elated.
Thunderstorms and bad weather push a (perverse) button to turn on a cheerful mood.
Some inclement weather is a nice change from the endless blue sunshine here in the kingdom of Spo.
I’m told these late spring storms are all clouds and lightning but no rain. Robertson Davies wrote an essay on “Thunder without Rain’, apparently based on a T.S. Eliot poem (anyone know it?). It is a nice expression; to have all of heaven’s wrath without the benefits of rainwater. A sort of opposite to the expression having your cake and eating it too.
I hope that my readers dont' have too much ‘thunder without rain’ in their present lives.

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