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Today; heavy, sullen and slow. The very air gravid with latent moisture.
After building for hours, the storm from Africa broke over the mountain in a tumultuous crescendo of light and power.
This atmospheric magnificence is nature unleashed and in the raw.
The great cumulus clouds became utterly intolerant of their own vast accumulated energy.
Roiling patterns constantly forming and unforming at this the meeting point of two oceans, two continents and the mighty Poniente and Levante winds.
As ever nature seeks to balance, to smooth the Gaian curve and in so doing the storm releases untold pent up energy into the encompassing ecology.
This energy is received by our Sapient kind in the form of awe and beauty.
We drink as deeply from this well of majesty as the plants do of the accompanying life sustaining rain itself.
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Photo: Storm over Saladaviciosa. Courtesy of the author.