… give permission to slow down, contemplate, reflect, and be lazy.

… make sweet music on tin roofs.

… allow one to mentally pull out of the rat race.

… make mini swimming pools in which children may celebrate.

… make dusk all day.

… expose those worn out windshield wiper blades.

… make you think it’s raining all over the world.

… keep everyone from looking up.

… raise the roof on the house of the fish.

… are the clouds crying.

… bathe the animals and quench the thirst of the plants.

… have the aroma of rebirth.

… bring out the melancholy.

… soften the sounds of the world.

… have a personality all to themselves.

… last but a while. And then that particular rainy day is gone forever, never to be repeated.