SKYE readers don't need to be persuaded to look up at the clouds, but we think you'll appreciate Gavin Pretor-Pinney's TED Talk about cloud-spotting in the digital age.
The founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society makes the case for slowing down and gazing skyward to take in the astonishing variety of clouds that populate our skies. Doing so connects us to the Earth and its atmosphere. What's more, he says, "Cloud-spotting legitimizes doing nothing, and sometimes we need excuses to do nothing."
Hear, hear.
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