![]() ![]() It’s perfectly sensible that one should decide to stay indoors during a lightning storm, for example, or when a barrage of hail is denting mailboxes. We are wise to stay indoors whenever we find the weather severely inclement. We all sit indoors in an overheated mood and listen to the air conditioner.īut we still wish we were out in the sunshine. But when the temperature rises above 106 degrees and it hasn’t rained in weeks and even the swimming holes down by the creek are disagreeably tepid, nobody has a choice. We hike and glide on skis and drill holes in ice and hang buckets on maple trees and we feel invigorated. ![]() The frozen landscape is now clearly visible and the intricacies of nature that cannot be seen in summer come forward. There’s still plenty to enjoy outdoors during a cold snap. When it’s cold outside anyone can still bundle up and enjoy the crisp air. We all sit indoors, day after day, and soon develop cabin fever.īut this cabin fever we get during summer is the worst kind. There’s not much difference in our behavior when it’s 106 degrees in the shade and it was 105 degrees yesterday and it’s expected to be 107 degrees tomorrow, and absolutely nobody can go outdoors and enjoy time spent in nature. Bringing astronaut skills down to Earth to handle isolation.A recent heat wave reminded me of the dead of winter. Unprecedented pandemic, unprecedented shift, and unprecedented opportunity.
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