I've opened the curtain of my east window here above the computer, and I sit now in a holy theater before a sky-blue stage. A little cloud above the neighbor's trees resembles Jimmy Durante's nose for a while, then becomes amorphous as it slips on north. Other clouds follow, big and little and tiny on their march toward whereness. Wisps of them lead or droop because there must always be leading and drooping.
The trees seem to laugh at the clouds while yet reaching for them with swaying branches. Trees must think that they are real, rooted, somebody, and that perhaps the clouds are only tickled water which sometimes blocks their sun. But trees are clouds, too, of green leaves-clouds that only move a little. Trees grow and change and dissipate like their airborne cousins.
And what am I but a cloud of thoughts and feelings and aspirations? Don't I put out tentative mists here and there? Don't I occasionally appear to other people as a ridiculous shape of thoughts without my intending to? Don't I drift toward the north when I feel the breezes of love and the warmth of compassion?
If clouds are beings, and beings are clouds, are we not all well advised to drift, to feel the wind tucking us in here and plucking us out there? Are we such rock-hard bodily lumps as we imagine?
Drift, let me. Sing to the sky, will I. One in many, are we. Let us breathe the breeze and find therein our roots in the spirit.
I close the curtain now, feeling broader, fresher. The act is over. Applause is sweeping through the trees.
伊索寓言Lesson 36 The crow and the pitcher 口渴的乌鸦
少儿英语单词顺口溜:衣物英语单词歌
少儿英语单词顺口溜:食物及餐具英语单词歌
少儿英语单词顺口溜:少儿学科科目英语单词歌
单词辨义:look,look at,see,你知道怎么看?
少儿英语故事:A One-Mile
单词辨义:what, how, where, who和how old怎么用好?
少儿英语单词顺口溜:课间活动动副词组英语单词歌
幼儿英语单词大全:动物英语名称(animals动物)
幼儿英语水果名称大全
幼儿英语单词顺口溜:季节与天气英语单词歌
少儿英语故事:A Penny Collector
少儿英语音标入门:短元音[i]的发音方法
伊索寓言Lesson 37 The frogs and the well 青蛙和井
伊索寓言Lesson 33 The two pots 两口锅
幼儿英语单词大全:蔬菜英语名称(vegetables)
伊索寓言Lesson 31 The young thief and his mother 小偷和他的母亲
少儿英语单词顺口溜:工作和职业英语单词歌
少儿英语音标入门:长元音[i:]的发音方法
幼儿英语水果名称:字母C、D开头
幼儿英语单词顺口溜:交通工具
少儿英语故事:She Feeds Her Cats
幼儿英语单词大全:交通工具英语名称(vehicles)
少儿英语单词顺口溜:记一周七天英语单词歌
伊索寓言Lesson 38 The horse and the ass 马和驴
伊索寓言Lesson 29 The trumpeter taken prisoner 号兵
幼儿英语水果名称:字母O、P、Q、R开头
幼儿英语单词顺口溜:房子内外及家具
幼儿英语水果名称:字母A、B开头
幼儿英语单词大全:人物英语名称(people人物)
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