manifesto of the day- quote: At the cloud appreciation society we believe that clouds are unjustly maligned and that life would be immeasurably poorer without them. We pledge to fight ‘blue-sky thinking’ wheresoever we find it. Life would be dull if we had to look up at monotonous blue every day. We acknowledge that the clouds are the most egalitarian of Nature’s displays since everyone has an equally fantastic view of them. We fear that they are so everyday as to be in danger of being overlooked. And so we seek to remind people that the clouds are expressions of the atmosphere’s moods that can be read like those of a person’s countenance. We’re in danger of becoming meteorologically autistic – of becoming ignorant of the meanings of these expressions. They are the Rorschach images of the sky, and if you consider the shapes you see in them you will save on psychoanalysis bills.