Saturday, December 15, 2007


It's fascinating, sometimes, looking for images to go with a post. Sometimes you find things you certainly didn't expect, and these are frequently pornographic, which can be startling, but somehow, not as much as you'd think. Oh, those crazy humans- they things they'll do with their body parts! In front of a camera, no less!

Tonight, I was thinking I'd write something about rain, which is something I've written about before. There are plenty of things to say about rain, especially when your state has been in a state of drought for years, and most of it goes like this:
Rain, please.
Or if it is raining, it goes like this:
More, please.

So I wasn't sure what I was going to say but it would definitely be something in the way of more, please because it is raining tonight and fairly seriously, too. I didn't have any specific thing in mind, just how nice it is to finally get some rain and how thirsty the world seems these days and how when it rains, it's like the miracle of the dove bringing Noah an olive branch, only in reverse.

So I was flicking through the Google images for rain and the picture above came up and I had clicked on it because- well, it's amazing. Turns out that the man in the picture was a Souix warrior named Rain In The Face and I can't think of a more beautiful name than that to be given to anyone.

The photograph is credited to a photographer named A.L. Huffman and was taken in 1880. That may or may not be true. Things sure can look true on that World Wide Web, even if they're not, but this was posted on the Dakota-Lakota-Nakota Human Rights Advocacy Coalition page (that would be sort of fun to say out loud, but sort of hard, too) so perhaps it's accurate. Then again, perhaps it's not.

I don't really care. Chief Rain In The Face has been dead for a hundred and two years but his picture is on the internet and it's raining in Northwest Florida tonight and anything is possible. Anything at all.

It would be a mighty sweet thing to fall asleep tonight with the sound of rain falling and to dream of a Souix warrior named Rain In The Face. That's what I'm hoping for, this rainy night, ten days before Christmas, 2007.

16 comments:

  1. We've had rain twice this month already and it almost makes up for the 10 months prior where we had none. After enduring months of 3% humidity (but it's a dry heat, they say), it felt like liquid gold. And once even on my birthday weekend. Hooray!

    But yes, more please. Very, very please.

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  2. Nothing better than being lulled to sleep by the rain. Can't say I would enjoy dreaming about Chief Rain in the face, but to each their own. Hopefully we will have a lot more of those rainy nights as like you I enjoy them immensely.

    Rich

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  3. "it's a good soaker" my husband kept saying all evening, innocently repeating over and over. Boy does he love the rain. He cracks me up.

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  4. Libbyllama- never enough rain anymore. But I am grateful for what we got. Maybe liquid platinum for us. And yeah- I know about that dry heat. You feel fine, right until you pass out.

    Rich! I miss you so! How are you? How's the play going in Thomasville?

    Ample- a good soaker? I love that. Spoken like a true gardener.

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  5. Or a guy who is ready to go burn a lot of stuff!

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  6. Ah, you know the dry heat well, I see. And there's no where to hide from it.

    Juancho-careful not to project!

    Rich-what play?

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  7. Libbyllama- you are as funny as your brother.

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  8. libbyllama-The play is called "Three Bags Full" and will be in Thomasville at the TOSAC theater on Broad Street in February. A very funny play (hopefully), but it would be a lot more fun if Mary were in it. She was the perfect date for the Nazi in Casablanca. And yes I miss you Mary and I am doing just fine. Thanks for asking.
    Rich

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  9. Oh Rich. I wish I was in that play, too. I miss hanging out with you. I can't wait to see you in this new one. Keep us posted.

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  10. Fa-la-la-la-la-LA-la-la-laaa!

    sorry, i don't know what came over me.

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  11. Juancho- you keep this up and I'm going to make you accompany me to see Lynn and sing for her.
    I'm serious.

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  12. Has Juancho showed you his old break dancing moves. Throw down some cardboard, step back and behold!

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  13. Oh my God! NO! But thanks for the tip. I'll be sure to explore this small part of the amazing talent which is Juancho!

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  14. Is there an EMT in the crowd??? ;)

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  15. Don't worry, m'am- I am a registered nurse.

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  16. Wow that was a beautiful picture. My great g-ma was actually Cherokee so I feel a bond with native americans and that picture in a way. It's a beautiful name. Rain at night is the best way to sleep; Last night it was amazing - I left my windows open so I could hear it (:

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