Clouds and winds of change

Observe your life, between two breaths.

Breath is a wind, both coming and going.

On this wind you have built your life–
but how will a castle rest on a cloud?

Avicenna
Trans. by David Fideler and Sabrineh Fideler

The skies have been intermittently cloudy over the past few days.  The clouds arrive on the wind, swirl around, morph into different shapes, and then fade into the expanse of the sky.  An hour or so later, another set of clouds appear.

This ever-changing pattern of the clouds amplify my...