My Clouds of Fables
The Sublime Art of Cloud Watching: Calm Cloud Watching
“Imagine lying on a grassy field, looking up at the sky. Describe the clouds you see. What shapes or stories do they tell? How does watching them make you feel?”
It’s natural to see clouds, especially on any given sunny autumn day with the soft breeze whispering by the ears. It tells me to gaze up at the puffy cotton clouds that sweep by in the distant azure blue sky.
The story begins with a dragon huffing out a long puff of smoke in pursuit of something up ahead; however, the saga continues to unravel as I lay on the grassy fields under the warm sunshine. The dragon seems to be rather out of breath, panting and huffing with the little ones flying above their mother dragon. Giggling at their mother’s attempt, they wonder what the fun is all about, for the little ones have yet to begin their hunt. After another five minutes with my sunglasses dangling overhead, I get up and walk ahead toward a park bench, and I realize what the dragon is chasing after.
A hare nuzzles his friend, the tortoise, in the rear. “Hurry up,” the hare says to the tortoise. “If you don’t go any faster, we’ll be burnt into crisp.”
It seems they were interrupted by that mother dragon while the pair was trying to enact and play their usual roles of the Tortoise and the Hare. Far up ahead, I notice the cloud formation of a shady willow tree. Could it be the tree that the hare in Aesop’s fable is supposed to be napping under while the tortoise zooms slowly past him?
Surprisingly now, the hare is helping the tortoise out of a bind! The hare isn’t so bad, after all!
🐰“A friend in need, is a friend indeed!”🐢
🐢I guess now we know the true friendship behind the real life characters of Aesop’s fable, “the Tortoise and the Hare.”🐰
A big thank you to Sahil Patel for this Reciprocal Nature Prompt:
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