Nature at its most menacing yet giving
Summer rain is making the roof create a music which can equal the grandiosity of Beethoven’s symphony num 6. Visibility has been reduced to feet. And the beaming and tormenting sun has been replaced by another life live dance on car tops.
It is raining and nature present itself at its most embellishing, dramatic and menacing form. The wind surfed sleets with the howling of the rain Gods makes a dramatic sight. Very emollient especially when seen through the windows. And as usual it bring to life the synapses in the brain as it is doing to the environment outside bringing back memories, thoughts and reinforcement of many facts. Rain and water cycle is certainly the most important ingredient of life on land, water with its magical properties of heat capacity and solvent makes the most dull and pale of landscape pristine and verdant. And in the cloudy terra incognito of the known landscape.
The bringing to life to dormant form also rubs on to the those dormant memories. The rainy days, the idyllic days not so long ago. And with each memory we see the enactment of life of past. Sounds sights suddenly come in front of eyes. The school days, the water logged roads. Wading through water with heavy bags in the murky water. Hot pakoras, tea, afternoon movies and tea. The incessant rain of university days of Goa. Where rain was considered so much of life that nothing stopped because it was excessive rain. [Some facts, Panjim gets 115 inches that more than twice that of Miami, which gets 48 inches annually. But more drastic is that it 80% of it in monsoon’s three to four months interestingly Cherrapunji gets 450 inches]. And from there to white pristine precipitation of snow capital of US. Where the snow bought everything to close except the best natural ice-cream you could make and before the weeks of slush the white pristine snow cover was the one of the best landscape eye could chance upon.
And as the terra incognito is replaced by terra cognito by the sudden disappearance of clouds, it bears upon the important task at hand. And soon the mind set changes from historic to tactical.
