Brooklyn is boiling!!!

I stayed close to home. My summers are usually filled with trips upstate and to other pleasant places, but this summer will probably go down in the record books as the summer that we all spent running from air conditioned place to air conditioned place. And it wasn’t just New York that experienced above average temperatures. Friends in France, The UK, California, Rhode Island, Seattle, Florida, etc, all complained about the same things…the sweltering heat and the horrifically uncomfortable humidity, as well as the fact that there was just no escaping either of them. And when the heat and humidity finally did subside, it did so with the arrival of tornadoes. We have had tornadoes this summer in places that normally have not been known for this type of violent weather. It’s been an excruciating season thus far.

And now the summer is approximately two-thirds over, with basically only August left to go. I am hoping that with any luck, that maybe we might have some better days to come before it is time to go back to the rat race that September and Autumn are known for.

But maybe this is not the best approach to take. Perhaps we need to look at things differently, more positively, if we wish to make our lives just a bit more pleasant.

There was no doubt about it, this summer was difficult, but I’ve come to the conclusion that people often spend way too much time worrying over things that we really have no control over. The weather is one of those things. Perhaps the best approach to take is that of mind over matter – and if we don’t mind, it won’t matter!

I had to switch my schedule around. Much cooler at night. Now I sleep all day and work at night. If I could only find a place that delivers breakfast to your door at night…