Nefelibata (noun) Origin: Portuguese | ne·fe·LE·ba·ta One who lives in the clouds of their own imagination; An unconventional person.
YES! I have always been inspired when I am on a plane and breaking through the clouds into the sunny blue sky. Decades later, I still feel a sense of wonder that I am actually sitting in the sky. I always choose an aisle seat because I love the freedom of standing up when I choose to and being able to move around without disturbing anyone. However, when there is no one next to me I always move to the window for the take off and the landing. It’s a magical view. The turbulence through the clouds makes my stomach jump. Not with fear or anxiety but with … I don’t even know with what. Imagination .. dreams.. wonder? I don’t know. I take about 50 photos and then just keep looking at them.
I mean it’s a sense of adventure. One day, a long time ago, someone was standing on the earth and staring at the sky. Maybe pointing out elephants, puppies, witches, etc. One day, a long time ago, someone had a dream, or a thought, or an idea. Something that made them want to fly. There are dreams about flying and about what clouds in dreams mean.
I have followed the clouds to so many great places. I have lived in my dreams, in my head, and in my imagination. I used to think it was just me that did this. However, I have talked to some folks who have admitted to me that they also live in their dreams. I don’t think I will ever stop taking pictures of clouds. Don’t get me wrong. I love the sun as much as I love clouds. But I love them each in very different ways.
I hope it is true that I will always feel this way about clouds. I think they will always amaze and distract me. Guide me. Envelope me. Push me forward. They make me dance in the rain and chase the sun. They make me feel like I felt when I was a little girl laying down in the fresh cut grass behind my house. They remind me of lazy summer days and crazy high energy storms. I love clouds.
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” ― Rabindranath Tagore
“Clouds in the sky very much resembles the thoughts in our minds! Both changes perpetually from one second to another!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
“I’m a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.” ~Mike Tyson
“For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds.” -Kamila Shamsie
Ok.. a dreamy break. Or a break from the dreaminess of clouds. A bit of a nightmare cloud picture. I am not sure if these are Parawixia Bistriata spiders, but when you are walking under them does it matter?
The Parawixia Bistriata spiders have actually created such a massive intertwined web that it appears as if they’re raining down from the sky because they’ve taken over so much of the air space and it looks as if they’re floating down. … They build these cloud-sized spiderwebs which trap prey in the air.
“When you’re a kid, you lay in the grass and watch the clouds going over, and you literally don’t have a thought in your mind. It’s purely meditation, and we lose that.” ~ Dick Van Dyke
“It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise. ~Henry David Thoreau
“Behind every cloud is another cloud.” ~-Judy Garland
“I don’t know what my formula is. I only know I like my characters to walk in clouds. I like a little bit of the fairy tale. Let others photograph the ugliness of the world. I don’t want to distress people.” ~ Leo McCarey
“Aren’t the clouds beautiful? They look like big balls of cotton… I could just lie here all day, and watch them drift by… If you use your imagination, you can see lots of things in the cloud formations… What do you think you see, Linus?”
“Well, those clouds up there look like the map of the British Honduras on the Caribbean… That cloud up there looks a little like the profile of Thomas Eakins, the famous painter and sculptor… And that group of clouds over there gives me the impression of the stoning of Stephen… I can see the apostle Paul standing there to one side…”
“Uh huh… That’s very good… What do you see in the clouds, Charlie Brown?”
“Well, I was going to say I saw a ducky and a horsie, but I changed my mind!”
― Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 5: 1959-1960
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