A Thunder Storm - An Evening Of Reading

 

Song:  Wicked Game

Artist:  Chris Isaak

Today...

late in the evening...

we had another thunderstorm.

After feeding Bandi her supper...

I decided to spend some time in my recliner just reading as the storm raged on.

I turned on some lights to read by...

...and I reclined in my chair...

with every few minutes...

being treated to some distant lightning strikes streaking across the sky.

As my house is well insulated...

I could only hear a muted distant thunder...

and only the faintest pitter patter of rain as it fell onto the deck.

But...

it reminded me of my boyhood as I sat on a curb in my rain gear

and watched the lightning streak across the sky.

I am reading up on some of the most famous Western philosophers throughout history.

I am not only fascinated by their thoughts...

but as I am reading their passages...

I am organizing them in my mind.

I will be pulling many of the thoughts of these philosophers...

and utilizing them in my next novel.

Everyone from the great stoics such as...

 Epictetus...

 Lucius Seneca...

Marcus Aurelius...

to other great Western philosophers from...

Socrates to Aristotle...

I will conceptualize many of their writings into a character driven application of them.

As I had studied many of the philosophers' writings at university...

I am familiar with many of them.

So...

after reading each book to reacquaint myself with them...

I am going back through them to begin my story outline.

It won't be a rehashing of their thoughts.

I will be taking some of their writings...their main concepts...

and applying them in the context of modern times in a fictional story driven format.

I am still unsure as to the full extent of the layout.

I am still in the research phase...

and I have yet to commit to a basic story outline.

I usually do not outline my stories...

as I prefer to merely let the stories flow as I write

(writing from the heart)...

but this will be a more cerebral attempt...

and as there will be many concepts to depict...

I will have to outline my next book.

I am in no rush...

but it is one of two long range projects I have in store...

(along with my next song cover).

Each of them will take some time until their completion.

I love thunder storms.

As I was reading...

every so often...

lightning would streak across the sky.

And as I have an almost full view of the sky before me...

I would catch many of the strikes in my field of view before they had completely discharged.

There were so many lightning strikes that I tried to capture one of them...

but I was always too late each time.

The thunder storms here usually don't last long...

and even as I sit up in the loft writing this...

there has been no lightning strikes since coming up an hour ago.

 I had a relaxing time as I read while fully reclined.

Bandi...

although a bit uneasy with the thunder...

wasn't really frightened.

Although...

upon hearing the thunder...

she would cuddle up to me while I was in the recliner...

she wasn't shaking at all.

I had actually planned to take more photos today

of the many wild flowers now emerging around the property.

But...

of course...

whenever we have a thunderstorm...

I just stay inside.

Each of the few thunderstorms I have experienced here has only lasted an hour or two...

and they usually stop completely after another hour or so more of a gentle rain coming down.

I enjoy the ever changing weather here.

It brings about a deeper sense of sweet solitude.

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I had wanted to capture the Strawberry Moon tonight...

but with the cloud cover...

I won't be able to.

Still...

I enjoyed the thunderstorm.

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Tomorrow evening...

I am thinking of treating myself to some tacos in the nearby town.

Just thinking about them...

makes me happy.

The great simple pleasures of life...

are frequently the best.