It takes a While

The title line on that last post didn't even make sense to me. But, serene in the knowledge that all things have a beginning (at least in the mind of the observer), I started reading the line over in a number of different ways, voices, and ages. Finally, it surfaced.

Gene Wilder did an underrated "innocent abroad" film several years ago, titled "the Frisco Kid". In it, he is explaining to Chief Gray Cloud (played by Val Bisoglio) that G-d doesn't make rain (or do much of anything) on cue. Wilder, as Rabbi Avram, talks about alll the gifts we get from G-d without even asking for them, and ends with "but He doesn't make it rain." There is a clap of thunder offstage, the unmistakable sound of rain, and Avram, with that strange smile of Wilder's when confronted by something beyond his experience, say "but sometimes.....just like that....."

So that's where it came from. It still doesn't make a lot of sense, but it's nice to know.