Remember the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.
You see I had been riding with the storm clouds and had come to earth as rain and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.
The positive news is that the British economy is continuing to grow and is creating jobs. And it is positive news too that at a time of real international instability we are a safe haven in the storm.
I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.
I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but like them they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
It is not light that we need but fire it is not the gentle shower but thunder. We need the storm the whirlwind and the earthquake.
After a storm comes a calm.