Shouldn't…but Do

Try this at home:  Go outside, look up, what do you see?

On my part of the planet there are cumulus clouds, a sign of fine weather.  No mixed clouds, just puffies working their way east.

Remember laying flat on your back, watching clouds?  At a distance clouds seem a stable feature, but they are more like thoughts, forever moving, shifting and changing direction in sometimes unexpected ways.  Transparent musing rising with warm air, condensing to take form.

Today they curl in like a nautilus shell, expanding, rolling at the edges.  Running into each other making new forms, more visible patterns that give a clue as to what is coming.

And high above the cloud deck, the sky is split by a westward working jet, intervention in the natural world, the fluffy foreground recedes in favor of thrust against a brilliant blue sky.  My thoughts go with it.