Meditations on a Sudden Downpour

I know I wasn't the only one to get caught in Friday afternoon's downpour - it came on the heels of yet another mostly sunny day in Paris, when everyone was out in the streets celebrating this seemingly endless good weather. The sun stayed shining throughout the rain, and the sidewalk became a shiny mirror, creating a parallel city universe - shimmery and blurry, like the unconscious or underworld; the city as it truly is, not how it appears to be on the surface. (Boy, do I need to stop reading Jung before I blog!)