{"id":117,"date":"2007-08-19T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-19T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2007\/08\/rain.html"},"modified":"2010-03-22T13:54:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T18:54:20","slug":"rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2007\/08\/rain.html","title":{"rendered":"Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve had three full days of rain in the last two weeks. Hour after hour of steady, cool rain. And this morning, driving through the cornfields, the corn looked drastically different than it did when I wrote last<\/a>. Those sections of fields that had been twisted and brown are still twisted and brown. But those sections that had simply been pale green with streaks of yellow are now lush and green. The weather man calls this the million-dollar rain for all the money it’s saved farmers in my area.<\/p>\n

Imagining what days of rain would feel like, I’d imagined green corn, green grass, new growth on trees, and an abundance of flowers all reaching upward to the newly non-hostile skies in a celebration of life. It was a nice dream. But the reality leaves a little bit to be desired in the Celebration of Life department…..<\/p>\n

A mayfly is huddled on my porch screen in the strip of dryness where the overhang shelters it from the rain. Breezes ruffle it’s wings, and as they do, the mayfly shifts it’s position deeper into the sheltered area, entwines its legs more firmly in the screen, and settles it’s wings. You can almost feel it’s resignation as it puts up with discomforts it has probably never known in its short life.<\/p>\n

Worms, floating out of their holes, make their way like lemmings into the road and wait there to spread their bloated bodies onto the passing tires of cars.<\/p>\n

And the ground itself, unused to such bounty, refuses to absorb the moisture. Floods have killed people and destroyed houses, bridges, and roads only a few counties east of me.<\/p>\n

My cat, unaccustomed to the sound of rain, paces and paces, waking me in the morning to complain of the rain, and gazing distrustfully at it through the day. Last night he refused to sleep on the bed, preferring to continue his vigil.<\/p>\n

And me? Does the rain awaken in me a desire to go out and splash in puddles? No. It makes me want to curl up in the pool of light made by my little couch-side lamp and read, sip tea, and nap. (Especially and primarily nap, actually, with tea and a book simply there to set the mood.) But instead I force my brain to concentrate on the paper I’m writing, building it sentence by sentence and forcing my eyes back again from the mayfly, which has yet again settled itself and hunkered down, determined to outlast the rain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve had three full days of rain in the last two weeks. Hour after hour of steady, cool rain. And this morning, driving through the cornfields, the corn looked drastically different than it did when I wrote last. Those sections of fields that had been twisted and brown are still twisted and brown. But those … Continue reading Rain<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me-and-my-life","category-portraits-of-people-and-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}