Raindancer
Here is Mia, our local raindancer.
The desert sun is beginning to do it’s work. It’s heat is beginning to transform the earth into hard cement, the grass is browning, and the sidewalks around 1pm could very well burn your feet. Yet the breeze is still exsistant and the air has a brilliant chill in the morning when we go out to water the garden. But the sun is hot. Hot. I think it got into the 90’s this week. Yesterday while we were riding to the store, Mia had the back window is down with her hand reaching out, letting the wind tickle her fingers.
“The sun is too bright mama. Tooooo bright. Tooooo hot.”
“I know, Mia. It’s in the desert it gets hot now. It’s going to get hotter and hotter. But we can take it. We’re tough.”
“I have an ideer mama. Mia has a good ideer.”
I peak at her in the rear-view mirrow, waiting for her ideer. She looks at me with her mouth open wide and her eyes are amused and excited. SHe looks like even she can’t believe how smart her idea is.
“Let’s have another raindance! Another one, like with those little feathers and those sticks and the herbs and when Mia had a moon painted on her face. And thunderclaping. And jumping on the mountain. We love sun but Mia likes the rain, too. Can we dance for rain mama? Can we?”
A raindancing monster has been born. I think we’ll do another one this week. Perhaps we will get those nightly monsoons to cool things off this summer afterall. If you live in a hot dry, place, and you have kids and you want that rain to know it’s welcome whenever to cool things off a bit…balance things out…help keep those fires under control…then go outside in your yard and dance for the rain.
The night I read this, while I was asleep, I thought I heard it raining. I woke up immediatly thinking of your daughter. I totally knew that she had done a raindance and it worked. It wound up being the sprinklers that I heard but I think she is such a cool kid and she could probably make it rain if she wanted to.
I thought I smelled rain in the air tonight. Has she been dancing?
Comment by Maisha — April 21, 2006 @ 4:04 am