White sheep on a blue hill

by chuckofish

Don’t you just love clouds? I can’t imagine living in a place where the sky is always blue. Driving home the other day, the sky was amazing. A storm was building, but it blew right over to Illinois and nothing happened after all. Disappointing, but awesome anyway.

“Aren’t the clouds beautiful? They look like big balls of cotton… I could just lie here all day, and watch them drift by… If you use your imagination, you can see lots of things in the cloud formations… What do you think you see, Linus?”

“Well, those clouds up there look like the map of the British Honduras on the Caribbean… That cloud up there looks a little like the profile of Thomas Eakins, the famous painter and sculptor… And that group of clouds over there gives me the impression of the stoning of Stephen… I can see the apostle Paul standing there to one side…”

“Uh huh… That’s very good.”

“.. What do you see in the clouds, Charlie Brown?”

“Well, I was going to say I saw a ducky and a horsie, but I changed my mind!”

― Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 5: 1959-1960

Sometimes I do feel like Linus. But I feel a lot like Charlie Brown most of the time.