Category: Journal

It is the last day of August today. The summer days, hot and humid as they have been, have flown by. Today, for the first time in a very, very long time, the daytime temperature will remain below 30C, and the nighttime temperatures will fall below 20C. The humidity is decreasing slightly as well. Sweet… Continue reading August Ends

This summer has been so very hot and humid. Today is cooler, the humidex will be 30C, yesterday it was 40C. When the humidex is 40 I find breathing challenging, and so I am extremely grateful for the ground source heat pump, which keeps the indoor temperature at 23C, with reasonable humidity. This is particularly… Continue reading Endless Heat Wave

I was thinking this morning about all the hype about “living in the moment”. People who actually do that, thinking and feeling in a subset of time, surrounded but impervious to the past and the future, do not stay there long unless they have no choice. If our species had stayed purely “in the moment”… Continue reading Gardening

I am days away from saying that I’ve been in almost complete isolation for a year and a half. I see and talk to Attila face to face, he is the only person I’ve had a face to face conversation with for over a year and a half. Eleven times I’ve been to appointments, two… Continue reading Gratuitously Pleasant