Simply Felicious

Listening to: Quando Quando Quando - Michael Buble & Nelly Furtado

Some things are just too pretty that you have to stop whatever you’re doing and capture the moment. Normally pictures tell a thousand words. I don’t have a camera on me, so I’m doing the next best thing.

Adelaide experienced it’s first serious rain in many many weeks. Tonight there was some spectacular lightning bolts that snaked across the night sky and lit up the Australian sky with its tendrils. The jagged bolts were followed by some relatively unimpressive thunder but the anti-climax was surpassed by the awesome show the night sky put on for us tonight. The smell of rain is a very refreshing one - it smells of hope and renewal, all things being anew, if you need me to get technical. When it’s been raining all day and all night, like I’ve heard it’s been doing in Malaysia, it tends to get very tiresome very fast. But the farmers here need rain for their crops and the weather has been getting too dry too early in the season.

Tonight however, it was beautiful. Sombre and solemn yet magnificent in beauty and power. There is nothing understated about lightning and yet there is nothing quite so underestimated. You think you got problems and yet when you’re sitting in your room in the dark with Ben Harper on your speakers, watching the night sky light up, you feel miniscule in the grand scheme of things.

If it wasn’t so crazy I’d have gone out to dance in the rain. Thought I better not chance it - I still have exams on Tuesday. To which I have to get back to. Just needed to write this out and hopefully ‘capture’ it.

Damn I wish I had a camera on me now.

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