One of my favorite podcasts is The Gestalt Gardener from Mississippi Public Broadcasting. Host Felder Rushing introduced his audience to the Cloud Appreciation Society. Here is the official manifesto:
WE BELIEVE that clouds are unjustly maligned and that life would be immeasurably poorer without them.
We think that they are Nature’s poetry, and the most egalitarian of her displays, since everyone can have a fantastic view of them.
We pledge to fight ‘blue-sky thinking’ wherever we find it. Life would be dull if we had to look up at cloudless monotony day after day.
We seek to remind people that clouds are expressions of the atmosphere’s moods, and can be read like those of a person’s countenance.
Clouds are so commonplace that their beauty is often overlooked. They are for dreamers and their contemplation benefits the soul.
Indeed, all who consider the shapes they see in them will save on psychoanalysis bills.
And so we say to all who’ll listen: Look up, marvel at the ephemeral beauty, and live life with your head in the clouds!
I think they are preaching to the choir when it comes to us, but it is nice to be reminded to just look up and enjoy God’s handiwork sometimes.
Check it out at: https://www.cloudappreciationsociety.org/
