Cloudy!

Big Frank realized that clouds need some space between them in order to be appreciated, in order to capture their uniqueness. When they all come together in a show of cloudy unity it is dark. That is what "cloudy" means: it means nothing but clouds, and that makes it pretty much just one cloud.

Today was cloudy. However, not completely. As the attached photo indicates, there was a glimmer of sky (look in the lefthand corner), and in time (although there is no accompanying photo to prove this - you'll just have to take Big Frank's word for it), parts of the sky did clear, and some of the sun came out. What does this all mean? Following the pathetic fallacy (Big Frank is still riding that horse) it means that there is a temporary clouding over of prospects, as it were, but that in time that will clear, and the blue sky with its white lace will return and be even more appreciated than before, due to its brief absence.

And so the cloudy day sits above you like an unanswered question. Live it in the manner of Rilke's advice to a young poet to:

... have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

Rainer Maria Rilke, 1903
in Letters to a Young Poet