a storm coming

I am a countryman, Lord,
who comes from the country of the world.
Teach me your city's ordered ways,
the courtesies and gracious manner of your court.
Remove from me the likeness of the world,
on which I had been modelling myself,
and make me like your citizens,
lest in their midst
I seem as one deformed.
And teach me too
the language that I do not know,
the language I began to hear
when I came out of Egypt,
but do not understand
because I had grown up in an alien land.
Teach me the language you speak
with your sons and they with you.
And make me understand those little
signs, by which you give
understanding hearts to know
what is your good, acceptable,
and perfect will.

-  William of Saint-Thierry

It was windy earlier and there's a bit of rain now - a nor'easter is coming. Very windy, lots of rain, for a couple of days. I like going out in the wind - it was quite pleasant today, after I got rid of the headache, which may have resulted from the heavy weather approaching? I don't know. But it was breezy, mild and fresh.