Rainy Monday

Mondays are always rainy, I suppose, yet this one, with its deluge that started some time before dawn, seemed somehow tranquil. The time-sensitive emails some thoughtful being composed over the weekend were replaced by raindrops - a simple inconvenience for which Gore-tex provided an elegant solution; I have not yet found such an effective repellent for those multi-paragraph, carefully-worded emails. I love inclimate weather, because routines are swept away in the overflowing gutters, and life is what one does beneath a tiny umbrella.