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The website content reflects on the significance and beauty of rain in the natural world, its impact on the environment, and its role in a collaborative nature writing prompt.

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The article titled "The Rain Will Sometimes Fall on Us" poetically describes the phenomenon of rain, equating it to both tears and life-giving sustenance. It paints a vivid picture of rain's effect on nature, from the way it nourishes the earth and its creatures to how it cycles back to the sea. The piece also touches on the symbiotic relationship between rain and mushrooms, suggesting that fungi may influence rainfall by seeding clouds. The narrative invites readers to explore related works by various authors, emphasizing the communal aspect of appreciating and writing about nature, particularly through the "Reciprocal Nature" collaborative prompt.

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The author finds a profound connection between raindrops and teardrops, suggesting an emotional resonance with the weather.
There is an appreciation for the necessity of rain in the ecosystem, highlighting its role in quenching the thirst of plants and the earth.
The author marvels at the cyclical nature of water, from its formation in clouds to its return to the sea.
Mushrooms are personified with the ability to "sing in the rain" and are credited with a role in cloud seeding and precipitation.
The article encourages further reading on the subject of rain, suggesting it as a source of joy and a sustaining force in life.
The piece acknowledges the collaborative nature prompt as a source of inspiration and community among writers.

The Rain Will Sometimes Fall on Us

Collaborative Reciprocal Nature Prompt

The rain is surely on its way.

Rain drops, tear drops, sometimes they feel the same. Especially those times that you use those raindrops to hide those teardrops. The feeling is exquisite. Not that I want anyone to be upset enough to be on the verge of tears. Though, sometimes, it can happen to any of us.

And sometimes it has to rain.

The green leaves ravenously drink the falling rain. Whole branches collapsing under the water’s weight. Roots are waiting for those drops to fall. To drench the soil and make all those fine feeder roots happy.

The dry earth and thirsty fruit are thankful.

All these waterdroplets were gathering up in the clouds, suspended above us. Not doing any good until the weight of all this gathering becomes unbearable. Almost perfect spheres falling to the waiting land and creatures below. The unused and extra water gathering in puddles and streams and lakes and ponds and rivers, some finally flowing to the sea. Evaporating along the way to continue this never ending cycle. We hope so.

Water sliding smoothly off the side of these happy mushrooms.

Mushrooms have been singing in the rain for over 700 million years. Not only do they need the rain, but we are now discovering that they can make it rain. Their massive ejections of fungal spores are carried up in the atmosphere by the wind to help seed the clouds and give something for the waterdroplets to gather around.

That rain is really coming down now.

Time to get some cover.

Please read Mia Verita and learn about the Great Flood of 2016…

After the Rain

The Great Flood of 2016

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Please read Marta Henriques and her lifelong joy of playing in the rain.…

Rain Sustains Our Lives

This is a Reciprocal Prompt for the last week of January

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Written in response to Dr. Preeti Singh and her Reciprocal Nature collaborative prompt with Joyce Nielsen below …

Awake my Soul to the Music of Rain

Nature prompt Last Week of January 2023

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Thank you, Sahil Patel, for continuing these nature prompts in your wonderful publication, Reciprocal.