The Thunder-beings were busy giving birth to new clouds, sending them
to dance in the blue playground of sky. Grandfather Sun provided the glittering
sunbeams, which acted like jump ropes for today's newborn white, puffy
Cloud People.
One of the most curious little clouds wandered off on the winds. She
decided she was going to have a talk with Sacred Mountain. "Grandmother
Mountain, I've come to ask you if your forests need rain today," she
said. "I want to be of service, and so I thought I had better find
out what is needed most."
Sacred Mountain told the little cloud that there was plenty of moisture
today, but the little one could help in another way. Sacred Mountain taught
the little cloud how to understand the thoughts and questions that the
human beings were having. It was fun for the little cloud to capture the
waves of human thoughts rising from the Earth and to answer the humans'
unspoken questions by becoming shapes that formed a series of ideas. The
needed answers were found through the linking ideas.
The little cloud approached Sacred Mountain at the end of the day with
another question that caused Cloud to have a heavy heart, "Grandmother
Mountain, I've worked all day to reflect helpful answers to the Human Tribe,
but now I have one very important question. How can we get them to look
up and pay attention?