lucybychoice

07-20-2025

It’s raining. I am listening to Call It Fate, Call It Karma by the Strokes which I heavily associate with snow because I once made a short film collage that started with a shot of snow falling and I had that song in the background. Anyway, it’s on my “snow or rain and post run read” playlist which I’m listening to right now because it’s raining and technically I ran earlier. I’m not reading but I’m writing, that’s close enough, I’m writing about rain, yeah, that’s today’s subject, if you were wondering.

I just wrote a whole entry about nature and how I grew up both in it and not and how I love running in nature and then I realized it really sucked so I’m scrapping it and you get this instead. I apologize, I apologize a lot in this blog I feel, either way forgive me, it’s raining outside.

Full transparency: I’m not sure if my love for rain is genuine, or if it’s only tied to the sadness I carry around. But I do know that the other day I went for a run and it was raining at the bottom of the mountain and at the top it was all foggy and misty and cloudy and I knew that was a gift. A few days later I went again with a dear dear friend and it was absolutely pouring for the first 5 minutes and they were the best 5 minutes of the whole hour run. I do know this: I’m not sad when I run, and I like running in the rain. So it must not be the sadness.

I like fog and the mystery. Maybe that’s why I like rain, because it brings fog and mystery, it makes things a little harder to see and I like that, having to guess a little bit, I feel like I’m in a movie. There you go, I like rain because it’s cinematic, so many songs work really well with it, which is why I have a playlist for rainy days. Maybe I like rain simply by process of elimination because I despise the heat and rain keeps you cool. The sun blinds me and burns my skin. At worst the rain makes the prescription for all sorts of blood tests in my backpack a little damp. I am not made of sugar, as my dad would say, it’s only water, as my childhood coach would say. Maybe I like rain because it’s not too big a deal.

I think I like rain because it’s peaceful. I had a good friendship come to an end because I wanted to fall asleep with the window open on a rainy night. It’s calm and it’s peaceful and it is so so good to fall asleep to. Tomorrow I am going for a bike ride and it might rain and I don’t mind, I’m actually quite looking forward to it. I’ve danced in the rain many times and I look forward to the next one.

I’m quite sensitive to weather, it has a huge impact on my mood, but rain brings me peace and it’s the only one I’m always okay with.

What a gift it is! Join me in cherishing it, let’s dance together.

lucybychoice