I've opened the curtain of my east window here above the computer, and I sit now in a holy theater before a sky-blue stage. A little cloud above the neighbor's trees resembles Jimmy Durante's nose for a while, then becomes amorphous as it slips on north. Other clouds follow, big and little and tiny on their march toward whereness. Wisps of them lead or droop because there must always be leading and drooping.
The trees seem to laugh at the clouds while yet reaching for them with swaying branches. Trees must think that they are real, rooted, somebody, and that perhaps the clouds are only tickled water which sometimes blocks their sun. But trees are clouds, too, of green leaves-clouds that only move a little. Trees grow and change and dissipate like their airborne cousins.
And what am I but a cloud of thoughts and feelings and aspirations? Don't I put out tentative mists here and there? Don't I occasionally appear to other people as a ridiculous shape of thoughts without my intending to? Don't I drift toward the north when I feel the breezes of love and the warmth of compassion?
If clouds are beings, and beings are clouds, are we not all well advised to drift, to feel the wind tucking us in here and plucking us out there? Are we such rock-hard bodily lumps as we imagine?
Drift, let me. Sing to the sky, will I. One in many, are we. Let us breathe the breeze and find therein our roots in the spirit.
I close the curtain now, feeling broader, fresher. The act is over. Applause is sweeping through the trees.
相关单词：amorphous
amorphous解释：adj.无定形的
amorphous例句：
There was a weakening of the intermolecular bonds,primarily in the amorphous region of the polymer.分子间键合减弱，尤其在聚合物的无定形区内更为明显。
It is an amorphous colorless or white powder.它是一种无定形的无色或白色粉末。
相关单词：droop
droop解释：v.低垂，下垂；凋萎，萎靡
droop例句：
The heavy snow made the branches droop.大雪使树枝垂下来。
Don't let your spirits droop.不要萎靡不振。
相关单词：drooping
drooping解释：adj. 下垂的，无力的 动词droop的现在分词
drooping例句：
The drooping willows are waving gently in the morning breeze. 晨风中垂柳袅袅。
The branches of the drooping willows were swaying lightly. 垂柳轻飘飘地摆动。
相关单词：tickled
tickled解释：（使）发痒( tickle的过去式和过去分词 )； （使）愉快，逗乐
tickled例句：
We were tickled pink to see our friends on television. 在电视中看到我们的一些朋友，我们高兴极了。
I tickled the baby's feet and made her laugh. 我胳肢孩子的脚，使她发笑。
相关单词：aspirations
aspirations解释：强烈的愿望( aspiration的名词复数 )； 志向； 发送气音； 发 h 音
aspirations例句：
I didn't realize you had political aspirations. 我没有意识到你有政治上的抱负。
The new treaty embodies the aspirations of most nonaligned countries. 新条约体现了大多数不结盟国家的愿望。
相关单词：compassion
compassion解释：n.同情，怜悯
compassion例句：
He could not help having compassion for the poor creature.他情不自禁地怜悯起那个可怜的人来。
Her heart was filled with compassion for the motherless children.她对于没有母亲的孩子们充满了怜悯心。
相关单词：sweeping
sweeping解释：adj.范围广大的，一扫无遗的
sweeping例句：
The citizens voted for sweeping reforms.公民投票支持全面的改革。
Can you hear the wind sweeping through the branches?你能听到风掠过树枝的声音吗？
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