“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass; It’s about learning to dance in the rain.”
- Vivian Greene

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Rain feels good. When I was younger, I used to take an umbrella into my backyard and just stand in the rain, dance in it, and let it fall on my face.

Sometimes I still do that. :)

To be honest, I wish it would rain more in San Diego. It’s not that I don’t sometimes enjoy the fact that we have beautiful weather 95% of the time (it’s great for shoots!) but it’s those rainy days that make us appreciate the gorgeous days more. One of my favorite parts about a rainstorm is actually the day after, when the world feels brand new. The ground is still damp, the air feels fresh & clean and you can see tiny sprouts of new life that wasn’t there before. It’s the cycle of life – without the bad, we wouldn’t have good. We have life and death, joy and sorrow, winter and summer, and the transitions in between. There needs to be a ‘bad’ (death, sorrow, winter) to have a ‘good’ (life, joy, summer). It’s all a balance. It’s all a cycle.

I especially love the above quote because I know it’s easy to hate the bad things in life and just want it to go away, but how much better would it be if we learned to dance in it? Move with it, adapt to it, be flexible with it? Our life quality would surely only expand. :) We would be happier people overall. Welcome the rain with open arms, knowing that this, like everything else, shall pass.

We’ve had five consecutive days of rain down here, thanks to El Niño. I am sad to say today is forecasted to be the last day of this storm. So why not go out there and enjoy this final day – go dance in it - cause tomorrow the sun will come out again. :)