From the Terrace

The Jiu Valley is a paradox of permanence and change. In a half hour, I watch heavy clouds slide over the mountain tops, seeping fog down the mountain tresses and pressing darkness against the afternoon sun. Thunder echoes across Lupeni, pounding lightening bolts over the eastern edge of the city and in the foothills. The warm breeze of a few minutes ago is swept into confusion, blowing my hair against my face. The streets are suddenly less full; children scream and run. Visibly the rain approaches, folding the city beneath grey sheets. Wide-thrown drops begin to wet my skin as I watch, mesmerized.

In this moment, I am invisible. I am an observer listening intently for every sound, forgetting to breathe, and completely spellbound. Endings merge with beginnings, waiting coalesces with realizing -- and for a moment, my thoughts cease as I feel again rain on the other side of the world.

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  1. JdriverJuly 15, 2009 at 3:45 AM

    Your descriptive writing about nature and how it's alive is again, brilliant, Linds. Not that we needed a picture, but that gives our eyes your words too.

    Keep writing you.
    J

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  2. Amber CoatsJuly 17, 2009 at 5:09 PM

    i would like my thoughts to cease for a moment : ) i will work on that this afternoon.

    today i'm in Mountain Home, Arkansas. tagging along with chad on a job. he is doing plumbing at a park rangers house. b-e-a-u-tiful park and lake. we are headed back home today if all goes well on the job site. love ya, beans

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  3. limboo Xu 徐云佳July 28, 2009 at 11:32 AM

    hey~!! what's up? how's ur Romanian life going on?
    please keep posting and I can know what is happening to you over there

    Help me take care of you, please
    Shy Chinese guy
    limboo

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