One of the most amazing things ever is flying through clouds, then merging on top of them.

It's very near to a magical experience for me.

Travelling through the enveloping grey haze, opaque and close feeling, with just the faint, fleeting suggestions of the outside world, then breaking through to above, where everything is bathed in the most amazing unrestricted light bouncing upward off the clouds is just incredible.

I dream about somehow doing that without the metal of a plane around me, but even with, it's an amazing thing.

I don't get the chance to experience that very often. And I'm not sure what made me think of it right now.

It's a grey day, and I haven't actually been outside my house, work and the hospital since July. Come to think of it, maybe that's exactly why.

I think everyone should get the chance to fly through the clouds and feel that light hitting them, if just once.