…..a large dark cloud blocked the light of the sun. It lingered for quite some time too, until one was left to wonder whether the sepulchral entity didn’t have a mind of its own and was behaving badly on purpose and purely out of spite for earthlings. But in time it, too, like every cloud that had preceded it in the brilliantly azure sky, moved on, allowing tiny rays of sunshine to gradually peek out from behind its bulbous, fleeing rear end. The landscape down on Earth’s crust changed remarkably at that juncture and everyone’s spirits buoyed dramatically, including even the chronic naysayers who stridently insist overcast days never make them depressed. The monstrous cloud finally moved on entirely until it was out of sight and out of mind, permitting the sun to shine down in all its lustrous majesty. The world we live in seemed a better place right then and there and life seemed so much more worth embracing and cherishing than before, even if practically speaking nothing of substance had changed in the interim……
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