Rain Rain Rain
by rebecca ~ June 25th, 2006. Filed under: Ordinary Miracles.
Rain
Rain Rain
Rain Rain and more
Rain
for the past three days.
Hokkaido is not supposed to get a rainy season like the rest of Japan, but it seems to me as if we get it, too, but without the uncomfortable high temperatures found on the main island. I don’t mind rain, however, because it slows me down and at least where we live the lush scents of freshly-cut sweetgrass and lilacs and clovers intensify and the myriad of greens deepen inside the birch tree leaves, the pine needles, and the grasses. Green filled with an inner light. Then those azeleas turn their lanterns on and lead me down the path toward silence.