have you ever followed a raindrop?
I have followed many as they start from a puff of vapor. Steam rising out of a boiling pot of clear water. Molecules that are so excited that they created bubbles in a pot; tiny bubbles that line the sides at first and that grow larger and larger. Bubbles that swim from the source of the heat to the surface.
Bubbles that break the surface and jump into the air. Light. Clear to the eye. Barely noticable to the touch. Rising and falling with the air currents. Some vapor coming all the way back down to earth to be used and my little drop journeying across the landscape. Reaching higher and higher. Till, it bumps into a bunch of other water vapor. It become part of a cloud and the clear little drop is part of a thin growing white cloud. As the vapor drop travels with all the others it is bumped and jossled, it rises and falls. It is now vapor and now liquid. Always pushed by the wind.
As more and more vapor collect together the white fluffy cloud is more and more crowded. It become more crowded and more drops are circulating up, down, up, down. Soon there will be no more place for all the drops to float about. It is near impossible to see the ground anymore. The winds are very stong and the temperature is a lot more exteme.
Ah time to go. As my little drop falls from a dizzy height in the cloud it slips pass the edge of the cloud and plumits to earth. Not a slow gentel ride this time. It is a race to the ground, the wind whipping everything around and around. the drop wobbling from one shape to the next, bumping into other drops and speeding to the next adventure. Hurtling to the ground and landing with a manificent plop.
Racing on to an other adventure as part of a flower, or on its way to a body of water.
