Opus 2025-342: Cloud Joy

As I write, I am on my Texas porch for the first time in four sunrises.  The last four I spent enjoying the sunrise on the porch in Reno.  I enjoyed every one of those four mornings.  It was absolutely glorious because my friends have a porch which is situated so that they can look across a wash designed for flood control and are high enough to look over the houses on the other side.  In the distance you have the mountains between them and California.  It is an awe inspiring view.  I enjoyed every minute of it.

Now that I’m back on my porch I noticed one big difference.  Clouds.  In Reno when I was there  were only clouds one morning and they were high and wispy.  Here there are brief breaks in the display above me, but for the general pattern I don’t see the sun or the blue.  It’s all shades of gray and white as it races across the canopy.

I think I missed my clouds.  There will come a time when the sky of Texas is as cloud free for long periods of time as it was in Reno.  I will live with it because in many ways it will give me a vaster vista.  But I enjoy my clouds.  It reminds me of the variety of expressions that God has given us in His creation.  It reminds me of the joyful variety in life.

It’s good to be home.  I enjoyed the fellowship.  Being an introvert, I also enjoy the isolation.  It’s called having the best of both worlds.

homo unius libri