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.