Tuesday, May 12, 2009

clouds

I wonder if any civilization has ever tried to read the future in the clouds. People turn to the stars, the planets, tea leaves, palms, cards...what about the clouds.

shanti,
mjh

2 comments:

Wallace said...

people watch the clouds here... but only to predict the weather and sea for the next day or so... does that count as future?

saw a rainbow the other night and thought of you...

Unknown said...

i think that counts. Future-telling has always intrigued me, at least in the relative sense. One night, while driving south on I-85, I saw a massive wreck in the northbound lane. Miles after that, I kept thinking that, if I could talk to the cars speeding north, I could tell them their future. I could tell them of their long wait, the traffic, the hours of sitting on that interstate that lay in front of them. Almost like I was going down a ladder, passing them as they went up, and I knew where they were headed and what lie ahead of them.