Tonight, Austin was put on a tornado watch. So Drew and I headed out to the highest point in our neighborhood, sat on the curb, and watched the dark skies light up. It was a beautiful show, one that left us full of awe and wonder. Sure, there was danger, but we weren't far from home, and there was barely any wind. Tornadoes are windy, ergo, no wind = no danger.
There was a cat hanging out on the hood of a truck parked in a couple driveways down the road. We figured as long as the cat was hanging out, we'd be safe too. We kept looking over at the cat, and it seemed like the cat was checking us out too. We were saying "Don't look at us cat, we're looking at you!"
Finally, the rain really started coming down, and the lightning was decidedly closer. The cat took off, so we climbed into our car too. When we got home, our housemates were waiting for us and we promised to wake them up if the tornado got closer. They go to bed early, and we usually stay up past midnight, which is when the tornado warning would be over.
I now have this fierce desire to be a storm chaser. I'm convinced that people would love to watch us chase storms all over the world, on a motorcycle, and discovering delicious foods along the way! Seriously, I think that people would love that shit!
Anyway, it was wonderful to just sit outside with the love of my life, watching these amazing things happen around us, feeling so small and yet, so full of love and awe that I felt like an integral part of this universe, like all these things happening around me are simultaneously happening inside me and the connectivity of it all, the flow of the storm, of life...that's some real good stuff there.
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