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Do you ever watch clouds grow?

Maybe that's a silly question. I'm not sure that I know anyone else who watches clouds grow. Sometimes I can't help it, though. There's something majestic going on, something that speaks of the creation of life itself, something celestial and heavenly.

I love to watch clouds grow. It's different than watching them move across the sky, which has its own kind of grandeur. No, this is growth, but on a scale that the greatest architects can only dream of... The dazzling, perfectly glorious white puffs reach skyward, delicate and powerful, soft and strong. They make the azure sky seem more like a royal blue, a deep, mysterious background for these fantastic shapes...

And it's this mystery that confounds me, that pulls me in and makes me watch. I cannot pull away, I dare not! For how can one turn away from the primal forces of creation itself? And it goes on in real time (what an amazing concept - Real. Time.) such that if you blink things have changed and you've missed an integral part of the construction process... I can't decide where to look, my eyes drawn first to this extrusion here, now to that explosion there, like watching dancers on the grandest of stages... Each beautiful portion stealing my attention, only to return to where I was previously to see an entirely different scene... How does this happen? What causes the growth? Who can say?

Don't bore me with the science. There's more going on here than updrafts and thermals and water vapor. This is something of the soul.

Oh, won't you come with me and we'll lay out on the green grass, looking at the white clouds grow and grow and grow across the deep blue sky?

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