so yesterday was one of those patented midwestern on-again/off-again rainy days… it’d rain for 3 minutes. then it would be sunny and humid. then cloudy. then sunny and rainy at the same time. then cloudy and pouring. then cool and breezy and sunny. then hailstones came flying. etc. and every now and then, the wind would pick up, and blow the rain damn near horizontally (to the point that i had to close windows a couple of times to keep the carpet dry.)
school lets out at 3:00. between 3:05 and 3:10, the kids that live on our block come tromping up the greenway that divides the two rows of backyards, then up their respective back stairs.
so at 3:00, it was sunny. at 3:03, the wind suddenly picked up and raindrops the size of walnuts went flying at about a 45 degree angle. and, from my don’t-wake-the-baby-during-naptime fiddle practice spot on our (safely screened-in) back porch, i could hear, all at once, the howling of several dozen indignant children from about a 3-block radius. it quit raining two minutes later, and a bunch of soggy, pissed-off kids came running home with their umbrellas turned inside-out.
and it made me think of ben kenobi saying, “I feel a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.”
and it took me quite a while to stop laughing.
