OMG - it is hot in our Nation's Capital. So hot that the usually overbearing airconditioning isn't even touching the swelter. The drive in from the airport was a haze of heat. You could literally see the it wavering in the air. I think it is making everyone move just a bit slower. Though it is certainly not making their tempers less volatile. Just watching the crowd jostle its way out the doors and into the cabs told that story. Every suitcase bump was a cause for a rough look or harsh word. It certainly made me step back to let everyone move through.
Funny the way our environment affects us and the way we let it affect the way we treat each other. It is as if this cauldron of heat is boiling us and the roil it creates leads to that bumping and grinding and clenching of teeth.
I think of some of the old movices, like Cat on a Hot Tim Roof, when the rain finally comes and the tension releases - then all the sultry and somehow good qualities of the passion of that built up heat gets released. Makes you wonder how much is being built up out there. With all these people sending out so much negative in the heat of the day, will they find their balance if the night brings them a whisper of cool, a pleasant downpoor? And will they notice how different they are when that release comes?
Is there a way to take the lessons of a hot summer day and move them into our daily life? When the heat comes from other less obvious sources? Can we learn how to source our own internal coolant - our own inner aspects of release? If we could, would we chose to do so? Or is it the passionate up and down part of the dance that makes life enticing? I know it is for a number of people I interact with everyday. No spice, no fun. They need the drama - could probably live without trauma, but drama, yes that is necessary for them. Yet I find that sense of calm is just so appealing. I like the smooth surface of the lake, and the small ripples on its surface. I love the ocean too, but at least I am standing on the shore enjoying its magnificence - I am not the wave itself crashing myself on the harsh rocks as I saw some people doing with their anger today.
Where is the balance? And how far out can we go as people before we reach our tipping points? When you have reached one - how do you regain your footing? - Hmmmmm - I think I am getting very close to "Why is a shoe called a shoe?" again..............
Answer Pray, Answer Tell? -
Does anyone know the next line to this Rhyme? - It is from one of Harry Houdini's acts...........
Time for some iced-something - Stay Cool and Be Good to Each Other
I keep trying to keep myself from buying an enormous amount of ice (cubes) and filling the bathtub whenever the e weather gets suffocating...usually I just settle for icecream...though, I settle for that even when it's dead cold outside...hm...could it be an addiction? :)))
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Rosabelle Sweet Rosabelle - they used it in their first act together which later became a signature act -