Lisa Ray Instagram – So apt and beautifully written I had to repost ❤️ Posted @withregram • @janicepariat This evening, after longer than I can remember, I was caught in a storm. I was out on errands—veggies, more masks—in preparation for the curfew/lockdown from tomorrow, and there I was marooned in the midst of it. Wind whipping up dust and dry leaves, lightening bolting through the dull leaden sky, and not-so-distant thunder. Hurry, hurry, I told myself, head down, walking faster. I’m not really scared of thunderstorms (unless I’m in an airplane!), but I felt real prickles of fear today, a feeling heightened perhaps by anxious news these last few days. Hurry hurry. We truly are small in the face of these things—a dry leaf in the wind, a speck of dust—and there’s something truly ancient about weather like this. Caught, away from the safety of my apartment, I couldn’t ignore how it all was so frighteningly, magnificently, beyond our control. And I thought of how to our ancestors, huddling together under rocks, in caves, this could only have been divinity. Some otherworldly power, showing wrath or displeasure. How children would’ve crept closer to their parents, how the adults would’ve held them and said do not be afraid. What is that? the children might’ve asked, of the bolts of light, the rumbling in the sky, and despite themselves, the adults would comfort them with a story—of how they came to be, and how they’re nothing to be frightened of, because a long long time ago…and their voices would have lulled the children to comfort. This, I realised, standing amidst the wind and rain, this was the beginning of stories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #thunderstorm #thunder #thunderstorms #lightening #thunderstorm⚡️#storytelling #delhidiaries #lockdown2021 #delhistorm #coronadiaries #thebeginningofstories #delhidays #lockdown