Rain

It has been raining all night and it does my heart good. It somehow gives me a reassurance when the first rain comes. A reassurance that the world has the ability to replenish itself, to mend itself and feed itself. It feels so good that nature still occurs (in a time and place where nature is scorned, scorched, scarred and is seen as a scourge) and this rain feels like a sign of that (nature still occurring). It will make me rest more easy. Drought is the worst of things, and water is the greatest of gifts.

Global warming sucks... A decline in ice will lead us to another ice age. Ironic. This ice age, although it will be a cleansing thing, it will mar the earth in its coming. Trees will be frozen out and soil will be covered, and carbon dioxide will only more saturate the air. Man will suffer, (animal will suffer) and all by his own doing. "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you got till its gone, pave paradise, put up a parking lot" - Joni Mitchell a line from Big Yellow Taxi, a sentiment with so many meanings that are applicable to so many situations and is no less befitting than to that of the situation i make mention of now. Eventually though, the salinity of the Atlantic ocean will equalize, convasion will be restored, and the ice will recede. The glaciers, having wiped out civilization, will leave room for reforestation. The reforestation will put the earth and its atmosphere back into a balanced state, and all can begin anew. I have no doubts about mans ability to survive through all this (via adaptation and ingenuity). If historical account of the way things were before is continued and survives, then hopefully man shall learn from all this, and will be able to live in balance with the earth; for living in balance with the earth is the only way to insure our survival as a species short of jetting out into space to go ruin another planet.

So rain makes me happy, cause it makes nature happy... and it gives us a little more leeway (in the form of time) to try to prevent our self caused destruction. With all optimism and hope, i cheer the rain, nature, and man on.