The Unlikely Crescendo

While wandering around in the rain, in the line of duty, many different thoughts started spinning around in the mind behind the Quirky Muffin, while backed by an imaginary recreation of the pivotal music from the movie 'Real Steel'. For one thing, why is cotton wool fluffy? Is it spun super fine, or treated in some special way? Would it be possible to make up a story about a knight dedicated to non-violence, or would it be too similar in scope to 'The Ninja Of Health'? Is walking in the rain fun because you get to interact more with your own medium as it's partly aqueous instead of wholly gaseous? Some of them are very good questions!

Questions, questions, questions. Sometimes the only things that come to mind are questions. It would be nice if you could get only answers on some of the other days. Maybe in parallel universe 3C, you only get answers. Then, if counterparts come together, they could answer most of the lesser questions of the day. Some of the answers might even be '42', prompting much speculation on the nature of the Universe. On the other hand, this might all be pointless drivel being pumped out by someone who doesn't have any idea what's going on!

The rain continues, and continues, shedding droplets of joy. Rain is nice. Yes, it is good to occasionally get a blue patch of sky, but my heart lies with the grand old precipitation. This water has been circulating the planet for millennia, or frozen into polar ice. Unbelievably, the most mutable of elements is also amongst the most venerable and enduring. Water is water, no matter what it's combined into, while rock and earth go through all kinds of diverse metamorphoses, and fire in transient and never lasts.

If you stop to think about how long water has been recycling through its system, you can become overwhelmed by the sheer ancientness of it all. If all the world is but a stage, then the rain is its applause, sometimes and pittering and pattering, and sometimes reaching a crescendo undreamed of by the planet itself. It's also a great medium through which to have a nice walk, and a song and dance, but that's not a new revelation!

O.