Southern California doesn't get that many thunderstorms. I've always loved them and they're one of the things I like about living in Laramie. A storm surrounds town now. I can't believe how long some of the individual lightening flashes last...... and then the thunder that builds over time, growing in volume and sometimes shaking the house.
I keep saying how much I miss the ocean. Its power and size, the feeling of scope you get standing on the shore - I feel at once tiny in comparison to the ocean and also large - standing on the edge looking out over something vast. It just occurred to me that an electrical storm is the closest I get to that feeling - the feeling of the immense power of nature and of my small size - other than the ocean.
