A delightful bit of writing

Spend about ten minutes reading this incredible story. From Willis Eschenbach writing at Watts Up With That but no, it is not about climate change or anything like that. Just go and read:

In Which I Talk to the Thunderstorms
Thunderstorms are great majestic beasts. If you had never seen one or heard of one in your life, imagine your surprise if a lovely peaceful day suddenly clouded up. Then it started to rain. Then it was pelting down hail. Then a blinding bolt of lightning blew your ears off � you�d think the world had gone mad.

We accept them without thinking because we know them. But truly, what an unpredictable and magnificent thing for nature to manufacture out of a clear, beautiful sky and a pinch of sun and water. As you may know, I think that thunderstorms and other emergent phenomena (tornadoes, hurricanes, El Ni�o, East Pacific fair-weather gale) along with other phenomena act as a homeostatic regulator of the global temperature.

So I thought I�d tell a story that start and ends with thunderstorms. This was in � mmm � maybe 2007, in the Solomon Islands (near the Equator above Australia.) This is the story of the tropical wedding of my friend Mike�s son. It begins in Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands, on the island of Guadalcanal.

Just go and read -- a wonderful story.