Rainy Day Women #12 & 35

I never understood the title of this Dylan tune. Maybe that was his intent. But rain is a paradoxical thing. As a boy, nothing was more disheartening then a rained-out Little League game. However, rain during a football game was a surprise gift. Bruises and losses were inconsequential amid the joy of mud-covered combat.

The Bergeron process explains the condensation of atmospheric water vapor into liquid precipitation. How soporific! Earlier civilizations were far more poetic.  On the southern shores of Lake Titicaca is a ruin called the Gate of the Sun. Carved in the center is the Sky God. The ancient Inca believed that rain poured forth from his eyes and called it "tears from the skies".

Be it a stormy nor'easter or a gentle shower when you find yourself rained upon don't feel so all alone. Everybody must get wet! - as ever - BB

"Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby." - Langston Hughes