it's always a whole new world after the rain. i love summer rain.
"i miss the rain in Manila...i always loved walking in the rain. the last time i did, i had a new pair of shoes on and there was a heavy downpour. i didn't want my shoes to get wet so i took them off and walked from work to my apartment. i forgot now the name of that street, i guess it was bel-air avenue. i could've taken a tricycle but it would've been a futile exercise because i was already wet.
so shoes in hand, i walked on the paved sidewalk, under a canopy of trees, the pouring rain coming through the leaves, my hair heavy with the wetness and my office clothes clinging against my body, rainwater trickling down my arms like tiny rivers. i sang jose feliciano's song "rain", not loud, but only in my head. sometimes i kicked the water; at times i jumped and reached out for a tiny branch or pulled a leaf and more water would come down on me. i pushed my hair back with one hand, dripping pair of shoes in the other.
sometimes some passing cars honked, others offered a ride, some sped up where there was an accumulation of water on the street and i'd get splashed and got more wet. now, the honking, i don't know what it was about. the ride offers i never understood, although kudos to them because for sure they would've realized that if they gave a ride to a wet person their seats were going to be wet, too. but, the splashers, i usually gave them the finger. so you'd think, you're already wet, what difference would that make? my sisters asked. the difference was that i got wet on my own terms, and the water coming from above had got be cleaner than that which already accumulated on the ground.
Just 'Singing in the Rain" - thats what its all about! Lovely story and good for you for keeping safe while you walked! This lovely iris is about to show us what it has got!
I love your writing, I have read this on your blog? Yes? Anyways it is lovely, I was on that street , with the rain shadowing the walk.
Fav ing for the writing as well,
Fav ing for the writing as well,