Life in the Heat

After a three-day weekend with nighttime curfew and general stay-at-home routine, Tuesday saw a bit of normality return to the neighborhood.  There are some changes among the food vendors on the corners and along the streets.  Some long-time vendors have disappeared, and there a lot of new ones.  There are entrepreneurs with small pick-up trucks that are stacked with produce, fruits and vegetables of all kinds, and they travel and park wherever business promises.  My reliable popcorn vendor still pops fresh corn. 

Tuk is “working from home” online as of today, and she doesn’t like it because she cannot concentrate.  The cats want her to play with them, and she keeps getting calls from co-workers. 

I just rediscovered an old tropical essential that I’d forgotten since getting air conditioning:  Snake Brand Cooling Powder, a talc for relieving heat rash in this hot humidity.  I’d used it long ago, but today I found an old can and applied it.  It works. 

Blessed coolness.  Zen delight. 

-Zenwind. 

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