cool

The heat broke Wednesday night, yesterday was mild, today was cold and windy and brilliantly sunny, maybe reached the 60's. People had migraines, allergies, fatigue, it had been an arduous week. I was off my game the whole week. Couldn't drag myself to Bikram. Routine shattered, energy non-existant, sleep, fitful. 3 nights were spent just conserving energy, laying still like a lizard, an alligator, some ancient species slowing down breath as much as possible to not sweat, not get too excited and sweat, just calmly reach for the water glass and drink. Keep drinking. Yesterday was the slow return to healthy air and mind and outlook. Today was peppermint ice cold waterfalls, soaking every pore, energizing every atom. Weather like today was what I used to fantasize about in hot, humid, fetid Florida where the shade is no different than the open, the night barely cooler than the day. The escape there was water, but you couldn't always get to it when you wanted to. The only cool air there is manufactured fake conditioned air. But today, here, you could drink it. I could feel it in the roots of my hair, my eyes opened wide as if to inhale, my hair whipped all around in the wind, ahhh, I was cold. This is the weather I love. You always, always, always know the fog will eventually come, while you're enduring the heat wave. That's beautiful.