Caught a rather large lightning storm over Kansas City from my hotel room last night and luckily had a little camera there to film some of it. Of course, the grainy video I put together doesn’t quite do justice to how beautiful it was. I added the music because, strangely enough, there wasn't any thunder anyway.

I guess this sort of thing isn’t too out of the ordinary out here (since we've been here the region has seen a small tornado, pretty big hail, and a large tanker fire), but I have to admit that it was a little bit scary. Not in the sense that I feared for my life, but more in a deeper primal way – you know that sort of sixth sense that animals can sense and are disquieted by the change in atmosphere during a storm. It’s really amazing how much the weather (and by extension the 'state of the world') can affect us. During this storm, I felt a lot of apprehension, sort of like all life's fears, doubts and apprehensions were suddenly flashing out there in rapid succession. However, when it finally died down and the rain came, it was actually sort of soothing – like the world finally let some of its tension go. It was nice thinking alone time for me.