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Urania’s ears filled with discord. Cracks and pops clanged as she moved her lower jaw upanddpwnupanddownupanddown. Wound tight, and sprouting a headache, she aimed to rid herself of pain by encouraging her sticky spots to relax. “Is it too much — to ask for a little sunshine?!”
Calliope gently massaged Nia’s trapezius in a show of solidarity. She aimed to shift sour into sweet.
“Did you notice today’s date? One-two-two-two-three! We can cha-cha-chaaaaa to that beat!” Thalia shared a smile with Drawist’s daily dabble. “The gloom will pass — always does — leaving some kind of lesson in its wake.”
It’s the artist’s business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
~ Romain Rolland
Cloudy skies today in your town? Downpours here plus lightning and thunder! Oh my!
If making sunshine through your creativity was your mission today, Bingo! Plain as day! Sunlight emerging from the page with the terrarium. Pencils, or watercolor pens, glowing as if radioactive, also with sun shiny hues.
Then the word message(s). Proscriptive actions to work out the tensed muscles. Allowing our friends to attend to a trigger point can work wonders! (Asking for and accepting help. Novel!)
Thalia’s comment about gloom passing is reminiscent of You’ll Never Walk Alone:
“At the end of the storm. Is a golden sky. And the sweet silver sound of a lark.”
(A Rogers and Hammerstein classic from yesteryear. Nicked later on by various pop artists.)
Perhaps this is not a day for larks in Wisconsin, but it can readily be a day for gloom to pass and lessons to emerge!
“Zip-a-dee-do-dah, zip-a-dee-ay. My oh my what a wonderful day!” Not intended for Cha-Cha-ing. 😉
Our weather has been dreary too. As was Chicago when I visited my sister last week. Have you heard of the new book "Bittersweet" by Susan Cain, the best selling author of "Quiet?" I haven't read it, but it's on my to-be-read list. She argues that for those who don't mind dreary days, "embracing the bittersweetness at the heart of life is the true path to creativity, connection, and transcendence." It's an interesting perspective that may apply to me, but I'll know more after I read it.
https://www.amazon.com/Bittersweet-Sorrow-Longing-Make-Whole/dp/0451499786/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1UAE69W0J8QP9&keywords=bittersweet+susan+cain&qid=1674407906&sprefix=bittersweet%2Caps%2C122&sr=8-1