It’s raining outside.
It rained yesterday, in the evening.
It rained all last night.
It’s November, and it’s the first rain since I’ve been here. I used to love the rain, used to slosh around in it in rain boots that only ended up keeping the bottom third of my pants dry. I grew up in Palm Springs (well, Cathedral City) and rain was was warm and small and benign. We played in it because it was an unusual friend. But I’m not in Palm Springs, and now I think is the rain has come for a longer visit. It’s the difference between a visit and a visitor. November in San Francisco means rain. It means Dave was right when he said that the rain wouldn’t come till November, and then it would come like young travelers to a hostel—more and more. But it’s now off-season in the hostel, and I’m living here now, and writing a novel and trying not to be too presumptuous about it. The rain has its own reasons… it’s cold and falls in big drops that make the whole city darker turning the streets to black rivers. It keeps me inside. There’s a reason for everything. That’s practically a cosmic rule. I’ll stay in, and I’ll write, and I’ll clean, and I’ll craft for myself a sort of life. And what more could I hope for in such a month?
One reply on “November has Come”
heres how it goes: it will rain consistantly for the amount of time- i dont know the precise time- that it will take you to think (know, feel, acknowladge) that it is wintery-fall and theres nothing you can do about it. THEN: it will stop raining (except for a drizzle or two) for just the right amount of time to think: huh, that wasnt so bad. then it will rain from february until the end of april.
gl on your novel. i cant wait to read it.