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April
21,2001: Creative Arts Thunder This
morning I give a presentation on weather to the Richardson Recreation Center.
This is a creative Arts presentation that I do called “Mr. Steve Plays the
Weather” and includes story telling, movement, imagination and weather safety
instruction for pre-school kids. To
complete the presentation I tell a story about Mr. Cumulus who one day grows up
to be a thunderstorm. At story’s end, the kids in whichever school I am
teaching all go to the window and watch the storm move in, delighting to the
thunder and lightning and rain. At
the end of today’s story, just as
we are starting to say goodbye, the first rolls of real live thunder echo across
the very place where I was saying in the story that it would come!
What awesome timing; this has never happened before!
The students and I take notes of this. Once
outside, I note the deep beauty of textured dark clouds overhead, singing in
occasional rolls of loud, deep thunder. Around me, gusty breezes bearing sweet
freshness and balmy temperatures add drama, as beautiful greens of trees fully
in leaf but not fully into summer add their shades.
Truly a cosmic moment. Lasts
only about 15 minutes and carries very light and brief rain. |
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