I just woke up to the first real thunderstorm I’ve heard in… I can’t even remember how long. Quite possibly since I left New Orleans back in 1995. After the center passed over us (as telegraphed by the time between seeing flashes of lightning through my still-closed eyes while lying in bed, and hearing the thunderclap roar across the land), I got up and went out on the porch to watch the rain come down for a bit.
I have missed that more than I knew.
And the back of my head is singing a little song from nursery school days:
It’s raining
It’s pouring
The old man is snoring
Went to bed, bumped his head
And couldn’t get up in the morning.