From the fields that brought us potatoes (and maybe "Potato Eaters")--but later took them back from us, in the form of condominiums--or something worse-- spreading across the landscape of the world), nature abhors a vacuum, and recoils with a certain righteous indignation. Here, a summer thunderstorm clears the air, and revisits those dreams and what they held--for a few precious moments, after lifetimes... © 1986, Michael Cook. (Painting destroyed as a result of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, 2001.)