How many warnings does it take?

I get it. Excessive heat advisories in effect. Today: 101F. Wednesday: 102F. Thursday: 94F.
And us living in a brick oven of an apartment. The young ones are going to have to open their hearts and bedrooms to the old ones.
N was not having a good night last night; switched beds twice, and I don’t think found sleep in either one. At least now I find him sleeping in his own room; not sure how or when he got there as I slept there last night and didn’t see him beside me this morning. E was in the living room, where an insufficient air conditioner does its best, but just can’t quite cut it. The children’s bedrooms are the coolest rooms in this apartment. As of tomorrow night, E has rented Ophelia’s room for himself. I might take a mattress back in there for my own comfort. Tonight … well, we shall arrange ourselves accordingly, methinks.

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Questions
in the face of eternity
are there answers
somehow I suspect
only in the harbors we find
when we can talk to each other’s eyes

Happiness
fluid and changing
proximity and distance alternating
as they do
here and there
everywhere

Can I be armor against your darkness
light in the shadows cast
by choices made
how lives unfold in parallel
so far from each other
so near in need they might never know

I see
sometimes I can’t say
so maybe it’s enough
to wash away old inferences
take in caffeine
walk on burning pavements

BelanaTorres

August 1, 2006

My goodness, I so feel with you! Today finally we get rain, I can’t wait to actually sleep again! Hope it gets better there soon! Love, Sophie

redmoonrising

very hot isnt it? i dont know how you can tolerate it! cant you buy a new ac? xox lovely words…

Red PJ's

I understand what you mean – it’s hot everywhere. I only have an air conditioner in my family room, and let’s face it – in this heat just having fans in the bedroom doesn’t help. I have been camping out in my family room for about a week now. My electric bill will be $500 this month, but, we do what we have to right? I hope that things cool off for you, and everyone soon. Have a good day.

I like Questions. Poor you. I never slept well throughout the heat wave here. Cool, when it comes, is a blessed relief. Rain most welcomed 😀

~Dreamer

I love your whitter. So many questions…..and we know we have all the answers too, it’s just rooting them out from the rest of the daily living junk that invades the spaces left in our minds. Hope you can find some respite from the heat. Just try and remember how we all moaned in winter and longed for the summer to arrive. Me, I’d settle all year round for late spring temps. At least they’re livable. Much love and hugs, Bren.

Hellooo! I am used to hot weather too being in Australia.Sometimes it gets to 4o celcius, which I think is 103 in farenheight.We don’t even have an air conditioner, but usually the nights cool down by four in the morning so we sleep with just a sheet and have all the windows in the house open.The cool air comes in during the night cooling the house down.Then in the day we close all the windows

again to keep the hot air out and the cool air in. I have also found that on really hot nights, you can dampen down a towel with cold water, lay it on your bed and sleep on it.After an hour or so, your whole body is really cool and you can get some sleep then without it. This works here, where we don’t have too much humidity. You could try it where you are and see if it works for you.

Another idea I have tried is to have a spray bottle filled with chilled water. You can lay down and spray the chilled water over yourself , and even dampen your sleep wear a little.That seems to work well too.Dampening your hair cools your body too since your head creates a lot of heat all through your body.It must be all the blood that flows through there or something. I don’t really know how

it works but it seems to for us. Last resort.Pray for cool weather and some wind and rain!! GOd does listen and he sure can answer!! Well must love you and leave you.I hiope you get some respite soon!!xx

Mangocitrus

*hugs* Sorry to hear the heat is so awful. My fiance is experiencing all that heat too. And he works in an non-climate controlled environment with a large oven (he does slik-screening — on shirts and stuff) and thought he was going to die yesterday it was so hot.

Liberalis Femina

When I was a little girl, back in the day as my kids say, our family would take up the carpets in the summer. We had no AC. On really hot nights we would bring matresses downstairs and sleep on the floor with all the doors and windows open to create, we hoped, a cross breeze. We lived in a rowhouse in the city so the house was straight through. Many people went to the resivior and slept outside onthe grass. I don’t remember it as being one of the bad times. Isn’t that funny?

Singing Nun

Yikes – I’m praying our air conditioner keeps working. I feel for you in the city. The air is so oppressive. Read you blogathon entries – what a feat!!! You are a crazy woman!!!!

scarletisis

I love your poems!! They are so wonderful!!!!

we too have heat index advisories of 100 or 101. this is why I came straight home instead of hanging out in BigVille to wander the outdoor mall. Feeling very raw, but I’ll be all right. My Mr. B is a f*ckhead in many ways and inadvertently resurrected an ache I’ve been managing pretty well for a long tine. Oh well. Boys are losers. 🙂 When do you leave on your retreat? I’ll miss you fiercely. Sorry to be so quiet in notes. I’m so damned tired. ha! Like you’re not. Lucky for me, my little house is pleasantly cool, though the A/C runs constantly. yikes!

We are finally get a break from the heat. It was only 91 here today, but with low humity, so very bearable. The last two weeks have been pure hell, with some days getting way past 110.

-b-

Sending cool thoughts.