Wind of Change

Yesterday when I stepped outside, I immediately felt the difference in the air.  It was cool and crisp . . . and very windy.  But the wind was different from wet rainy season wind, and suddenly I remembered last October.  One day the wind showed up, and it blew for several days–and while it blew the rain ran away over the mountains and just like that rainy season was gone.  SO yesterday all day the wind blew, and I was happy–and it didn’t rain.  I checked the weather forecast–sure enough, it’s supposed to be clear and sunny . . . and COLD at night.  It will start dropping into the 30s most nights now that the cloud cover is gone.  Today I woke up to bright clear skies–not a cloud in sight!  I felt for just a moment like I was on the Texas/Oklahoma plains in the middle of a windy pasture:-)  As I was thinking about the wind, John Denver’s “Windsong” came into my head–it’s probably one of the lamest songs of all time, but today it’s stuck.

The wind is the bearer of bad and good tidings
The weaver of darkness, the bringer of dawn
The wind gives the rain, then builds us a rainbow
The wind is the singer who sang the first song

(For all you non-John Denver people–probably the majority of my readers–that’s the best verse, I promise!)

Today I feel like the wind is bringing the rainbow and song:-)  So happy windy day to all of you!