"It isn't raining rain, you know. It's raining violets" - April Showers, song written in 1921 by Louis Silvers and Buddy De Silva
Rain, rain, rain! It's lovely to watch the rain fall in sheets while tree branches blow furiously back and forth in the wind around my home. That is, it's lovely to watch all that ruckus going on outside from the warmth and comfort of my living room -- with a glass of Sangiovese in my hand and, on a CD in the background, Gato Barbieri playing a mellow version of Europa on his saxophone.
It's just plain fun to imagine to splash around in puddles, if you have good boots on, while it's pouring down rain or to picture all the beautiful flowers in your garden growing. The soft sound of rain on the roof is soothing, too.
But rain has an unwanted power that can temporarily put a damper (pun intended) on this Spirited Woman's spirits. From a very practical standpoint, the power of rain can knock out electrical power for several hours. That's what happened in our neighborhood on Monday when a tree branch fell on a power line during a ferocious storm. Whap! Everything that is dependent on electricity suddenly stopped in our apartment.
Oh, it was fun for a while to be literally "in the dark," except for flashlights, devising ways to keep ourselves amused without benefit of electricity. But after a couple of hours, my patience wore thin. No lights, no heat, no cable TV, and no lifeline to the outside world -- no computer, and no phone! We went out for dinner, and when the lights suddenly came back on later that night after we returned, we cheered.
There's so much I love about the refreshing, cool, clean rain -- if only it were possible to take a rain check on those pesky power outages. I need to learn to appreciate absolutely everything about the rain, I guess.
And, as Dolly Parton says, in her inimitable way -- "The way I see it, If you want the rainbow, You gotta put up with the rain."
Linda Jay Geldens, www.LindaJayGeldens.com
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