The first one to create something beautiful. :]

The little girl sat at her window staring at the rain-streaked glass. Her family was asleep, and the house was much too quiet to entertain a nine-year-old. She sighed and wondered what she might do to ease her boredom. All of her neighbors and friends were inside due to the dreary weather. She walked into her mudroom and saw her small, yellow polka-dotted rain boots. It was the beginning of a blissful two hours. She slipped them on and opened the sliding glass door that led to the cement patio behind her small, country home. She lifted her face and felt the first lukewarm drop roll down her forehead and off of her nose. She spread her arms wide and began to spin. It was then that she could hear the music...there were birds, raindrops, and her feet splashing in the little puddles. Her next door neighbor, and eighty-year-old man, looked out his window and watched for a moment as this young girl played in the rain. His heart ached over his wife who had died a few weeks earlier and the grandchildren he rarely saw due to their living a few states away. Although he did not have any rain boots and his arthritis prevented him from dancing, he stepped slowly onto his back porch and let the door swing shut behind him. The rain WAS beautiful. On the other side, a single mother of 3 who had not slept the night before looked out her window with tired, worn-out eyes. She had been working night shifts to support her children and hang onto their small, two-bedroom home. As she watched her neighbor dance in the rain, her heart smiled. She had a daughter of about the same age. She slipped onto her porch and began to spin, and her long shift last night and lack of money washed away with the rain. A beautiful smile spread across her face. One by one, each and every neighbor of the little girl's saw her dancing, and they too stepped outside to share in her joy. Eventually, everyone melted back into their homes, dripping wet, with smiles on their faces, the little girl's the biggest of all.