The rains return!
We had thought that monsoon season was already over, due to some version of global warming, or perhaps a curse of some irate god. It had not rained for over two weeks, and the air was looking like Los Angeles: thick brown soup which tickles the throat and burns the eyes. But last night the clouds formed and grouped into tumbling dark armies which charged one another and hurled lightning bolts from horizon to horizon, rending great holes in the very welkin through which tumbled rain blessed rain. So today the dust is all settled and transformed back into its natural state of mud. And I can breathe freely again...