Back in the day when my Ma and Pa first installed the internet - I was about 15. I became obsessed - as I often do with new shiny things (note 6 blog posts in 3 days - give it a week and you'll never hear from me again) I spent hours online chatting and searching things and looking at porn and trying to teach myself HTMl so I could make my own website. An older and wiser friend at the time said the best way to learn was to steal so I'd spend hours looking at the sources of other peoples pages and copying bits and pieces to make my own little whatsit.
One of the sites I stole a few things from had lots of cool graphics and some stories on it. I have no idea what it was called or even what it was about now, I just remember reading one story that really stuck in my head for some reason. It was called Capturing Fog.
It was just a little story about how someone once told the author when they were young that clouds are filled with dreams, and when you get a random thought in your head, or a really good idea - it was likely that a little bit of cloud had drifted down and your epiphany was caused by the dream within that cloud. This was why cloudy days are the best times to create, and why it's often hard to concentrate on bright sunny days - because there are no dreams floating around to give you ideas.
I happen to really love bright sunny days, but whenever it's cloudy, or on those cold winter mornings when the mist hangs around thick and low - I always think of this story and smile and try to see what dreams I can catch.
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