Beautiful rainbow appeared when we got to 14th tee at Lahinch after a very sudden and heavy downpour.
It’s the wind again. Whistling through a window in the kitchen. Buzzing in a corner of the living room. It’s not usually both at the same time. In fact, neither noise is usually happening when there is just a typical breeze.
Liscannor Bay from Lahinch Golf Club where we played a few days ago, with the castle ruin in the far distance.
However, at night time, we sometimes hear the wind howling on the other side of the house. When we open the window at night, once in awhile, it will even bother Kevin enough to shut the window, since the inside temperature of the house is quite cool anyway.
I’ll be heading back to Scottsdale in two weeks time. I remind myself often how lucky I am to be in Ireland, escaping the scorching heat of the desert in the summer.
Whether the sea looks completely calm or the water is roiling with white caps, I tell myself to appreciate it either way. Even if the sea is choppy and turbulent, soon my view will be of solid granite mountains, and the deep blue sky where there is no sense of unrest.
High winds and waves hitting hard the County Clare seashore.
Unless, that is, there is a dramatic monsoon storm with powerful superbolt lightning strikes and fierce wind. Then the big sky country is agitated and chaotic. The booming thunder can probably be heard over the entire Valley, frightening every creature large and small. It’s rare and sensational. Spectacular, even.
But then, while gazing out the window, I pick up a bottle of W.B. Yeats Artesian Water and find this profound message on the label: THE WORLD IS FULL OF MAGIC THINGS, PATIENTLY WAITING FOR OUR SENSES TO GROW SHARPER. – W.B. Yeats
That’s right, I’m holding this wisdom on a bottle in my hand. How brilliant of the marketing arm of this Irish bottling company to use the image and quote of the 1923 Nobel laureate to deliver enlightenment along with quenching our thirst.
Wonders will never cease.
However wisdom reaches us, it is always a good moment in life!
