As I was walking outside to the inspection office at work, (we can’t take food, beverages, etc. through the plant), I looked up and noticed the cloud formations in the sky. It was overcast; a grey dismal kind of day that was seriously thinking about raining on me. (My favorite weather.) What struck me about the clouds was the convolutions. In stead of being parallel, they seemed to stretch and reach for some unknown point of convergence. To me, it resembled the underside of a scallop shell. With the grey mantle of the sky hanging so low, I felt enclosed and safe, protected. And very, very small.