Thunder & Lightning
From: Brain Pickings Weekly newsletter@brainpickings.org
"Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say, the weather is a great bluffer," E.B. White wrote in his elevating letter of assurance to a man who had lost faith in humanity, adding: "I guess the same is true of our human society – things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed, sometimes rather suddenly." Our most steadfast companion since the dawn of our species, the weather seeded our earliest myths, inspired some of our greatest art, affects the way we think, and continues to lend itself to such apt metaphors for the human experience. Its reliable inconstancy constantly assures us that neither storm nor sunshine lasts forever; that however thick the gloom which shrouds today, the sun always rises tomorrow.
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