It has been raining hard for the last couple of days. I love the rain. If it is going to be cloudy, it should rain. I like the rain even though I still have to do my run every day (my streak is not quite done.)
I went looking for a lovely quote about rain, and most of them were negative. For a lot of quotable people, rain is a metaphor for the bad things in your life that you just have to live with.
That’s just silly.
Rain is as necessary as the sun. The lovely view out my window wouldn’t be as green if we didn’t have rain in the northwest. It’s not good or bad.
So in honor of the rain, I want to share one of my favorite poems by A. A. Milne. He wrote the Winnie the Pooh stories and two books of poetry. This lovely rain poem is from Now We Are Six.
Waiting At The Window
Waiting on the window-pane.
I am waiting here to see
Which the winning one will be.
Both of them have different names.
One is John and one is James.
All the best and all the worst
Comes from which of them is first.
James has just begun to ooze.
He’s the one I want to lose.
John is waiting to begin.
He’s the one I want to win.
James is going slowly on.
Something sort of sticks to John.
John is moving off at last.
James is going pretty fast.
John is rushing down the pane.
James is going slow again.
James has met a sort of smear.
John is getting very near.
Is he going fast enough?
(James has found a piece of fluff.)
John has quickly hurried by.
(James was talking to a fly.)
John is there, and John has won!
Look! I told you! Here’s the sun!