February 16, 2005

I was so facinated with a natural occurence I found on the web this week, I had to share it with you.

The cloud photos are of a real (non-photoshopped) formation that appeared for 24 hours in Hilo, Hawaii directly over the Lotus Zen Monastery (which you can see under the cloud in the bottom photo.)

My husband, Jeff, knows the monks there. They took it as a sign of blessing on their perpetual meditation practice for world peace.

"A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed... It feels an impulsion... this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons."

Richard Bach, American author
(from Jonathan Livingston Seagull)