I am often there above you like a shield or a shadow, that presence that you scan for rain or indications of the coming weather. I can be broken like a torn photograph with gaps that show you the distances that my half-remembered form has you guessing at. I can move with a swiftness that defies all pace-keeping and sweep my shadow overland and sea with humbling rapidity.<\/p>\n
I am low and high, cumulus fluffy or strata straight, lazy as a long summer day or busy casting down the rain. You see me. You ignore me. You fly through me.<\/p>\n
And now from space you watch me as if clouds were a second Earth, stretched with changing forms across the continents and oceans with a vaporous instinct and near magnificence. And across the Universe now you can see I come in many different colours and have many functions to perform to bring life into being and keep it living.<\/p>\n
And you write about me with unceasing interest because you know we exist together. Bound as no things are bound to one planet, growing in shared appreciation of each other.<\/p>\n
But I alone know what it means to watch for millennia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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