Some of my more cherished memories of my childhood were me, my friends and neighbors sitting on a porch viewing a prairie thunderstorm brewing and then letting forth. Quite an awesome display and a welcome break in summer heat in the days before common household air conditioning.
ah summer thunderstorms, viewed from weak safety of a porch or garage, welcome relief from humidity…
the intensity of the thunderclaps, the smell of ozone, pelting rain maybe hail, the cool cool air afterwards, you can sense the foliage breath a sigh of relief…
of course the woods are so thick in southern New England there’s always -the suspense, the never really knowing where It might strike, the count from bolt to thunder, the awe when there was no count at all…
And just after the storm had past overhead! Biking through the puddles and the proof of it being the long mud stripe going up the back.
“Hose off before you step in here.”
Mom rule #313.
Fort Wayne Ind. summers in 1972.
This is great stuff!
My mom, having grown up in South Dakota and Missouri, trained me in how to look at storms – we’d sit on our patio and face the west in much the same way and taught me some of the counterintuitive elements of knowing about the storms.
Please read this by Nobunaga:
https://x.com/i/status/2066757124747833543
LQC-
I did read it.
Right in many ways, however…
His unity seems to be the unity of man, through men. The only unity will ultimately be through Christ, *the* way. Even then, we know that not all men will be united.
Christ himself in the Apocalypse tells us that there will always be a “them.” Not because He wills it, but because we do, through our refusal. At the end, He will still be separating out sheep from goats.
The goats are always with us, though we can and must work to reduce their numbers – by helping Christ to teach them how to be sheep.
Haiku
Green skies and lightning
Two men sitting on a porch,
Peace in the evening.
Yes, Bruised Optimist, I think you are correct, but Nobunaga is closer to the Truth than the overwhelming majority of participants on Twitter / X. He is very near to seeing Him Who is Light. I was simply impressed.
I too am impressed.
He reminds me of Alexis DeToqueville. 🪶