rain

What is it about rain? The way the air tastes, the coolness it brings, or perhaps the relief after being hot and dry for what seems like a small eternity? These tropical islands grew hotter with each passing rainless day. Two months had built their dry furnaces in our seemingly air-less rooms where sleep became harder to find with each passing day, and then this morning...the air was cool and the sky was grey as I listened to the first drip...drop and then the gentle music of the soft rainfall upon the tropical trees outside my window.

Today is the first day of classes being resumed after a long frustrating month of administrative work. I take it as good luck...