I decided to take a walk tonight, through the tropical storm coming through... the walk was not quite ordinary...

at first I stepped out, simply for a breath of cool refreshing air, but as soon as I did I felt a strong urge to take a walk, so I did. shoeless, but other wise fully attired. I determined to walk until I found what it is that drove me so compellingly to walk. I begn to feel very easy with it, though sometimes I would have to stop to keep from being blown over. the wind was very strong and the rain was pouring, feeling like thick slugs from a shotgun. Even so, it felt good. Frogs occassionally hoped acrross the roads.. I made sure to place them back into their respective grasses, so that they could avoid being run over.

all at once odd things started happening. a sudden feeling of dread struck me, as a loud crack sounded through the trees in front of me, a tree crumpling to lay in my path.... slightly disturbed by this I kept on, determined to understand why I had been called out here, refelcting on what Id read on Vayu.

as I continued my walka dark patch or forest lay ahead. with but a single streetlight to light it, it was very dark, and the trees very thick, and I would swear there was howling coming from them. i continued to walk though, and as I did, the one streetlight flickered out, along with every other light in the next half mile. a bit spooked I continued on, retrieving more toads from their perilous positions.
being nearly unable to see I continued to press on another half mile, at times the wind making walking forward impossible. coming to the end of the half mile street, where Id planned on turning back, I stopped a moment, and looked behind me, turning in startlement as the sky flashed blue several times. I expected a boom of thunder or something but no such thing happened. Nothing at all happened.. until several seconds later a loud howling began that seemed to sound from high above the highest trees, and as I heard it sweeping ever closer, the streetlights that had gone black, lit again, lighting my path back through the trees.

I sat down on a curb for about ten minutes simply to be there. to feel the wind, and to feel the rain. Looked up at the sky, black faded to blue, faded to pink in the background... city lights.the wind made the trees bend as if they were nothing but blades of grass, obediant to their master, the wind, as they should be. And I started back home, again, replacing toads to their misplaced homes.