This is a summer of heat. I don't ever remember so many days with temperatures over 100 degrees. July even had three days over 110 degrees. It was crazy when the high for the coming week was 117 degrees. In the end it is hot!
Now I've shared with you before how much I love the heat. When it is over 100 degrees I spend time in the backyard baking. My wife has to remind me to come inside. I love to sit outside until I finally start to warm up.
I read a statistic that Sacramento in September has 348 hours of sunshine - the most in the world. So the follow up is September in Sacramento is the hottest place to be. But it also means my crops are so distressed. This has not been a year with lots and lots of tomatoes. The tomatoes have ripened a few at a time. It seems like we have to overwater the plants to keep them happy.
I hear things and I just know it must not be true. A friend of mine is a lobbyist. He told me that in twenty years the temperatures at the equator will be too high for human habitation. I did some follow-up research and I can't prove this 'fact' one way or another. At times it feels like our poor planet - the only one we get - is just so tired and over stressed in so many ways. In our house we pray daily for mother Earth. The only saving grace is resiliency. It is defined as the ability to recover from great difficulties.
Human beings have an amazing ability to bounce back when faced with adversity. This is a saving grace we see often in children. The human race has this ability and it is reflected by events in our lives.
I believe mother Earth has the same ability of being resilient. The difficulty is there will eventually come a tipping point. It is the point in time when the challenges are bigger than any possible solution. Then we are forced to walk with the flow and put loads of hope into the equation.
We will have some interesting futures ahead of us involving weather challenges which have never been seen before. This includes extreme temperatures. Ther is a story about a piano player at a bar in Egypt. The temperature was 136 degrees one Saturday. The piano player started to play "There'll be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight!" The bar patrons did not take well to this song selection. The story is they ended up tarring and feathering the piano players and sent him packing. This is again an example of a story that everyone seems to have heard but no one can verify.
I still have an abundance pf hope and faith for the future. I do believe that our resiliency will take us to places of healing we could never foresee.
So meanwhile I observe all that is going on and I continually ask spirit to help through our actions to heal. In doing so, there will be growing community - meanwhile I am going to sit in the backyard and bake for a while..........
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