Clouds
A recent flight gave me yet another opportunity to look at the clouds from above, somewhere over Oregon. One can’t (at least I can’t) dwell on clouds long without Judy Collins’ voice coming in singing “Both Sides Now,” a classis song actually written by Joni Mitchell. You know the line, so go ahead and sing it now so it will be in your head all day:
“I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down and still somehow
It’s cloud’s illusions I recall
I really don’t know clouds at all”
But what stuck in my head today was the line just before that:
“So many things I would have done, but clouds got in my way”
I don’t know why, but it just stuck in my head – how many times do I let clouds get in my way? Of course, a cloud has little substance, just some moisture you can fly through, even walk through. And actual clouds never stop us from doing anything. No one says: “No, I think I won’t go ______ today, its too cloudy.” Still, I get Mitchell’s point – “so many things I would have done, but clouds got in my way.” All of which leads me to the simple question: What clouds are in my way now, preventing me from doing____? And can’t I just walk through them?
It occurs to me... 