It’s summer and the heat is back. The sun rolls up the overcast morning sky like a rug and by noon it’s blazing away undeterred, unfettered, indefatigable and any other descriptive word you might find that mean yikes watch out, it’s the sun blasting away in the sky with unregulated intensity.
We live on the edge of the desert, well we used to live on the edge of the desert, I think we live in the desert now. It moved, the city didn’t. This is all to say it doesn’t rain it just pours down radiation around here. I hate it. Give me an overcast rainy day any day, may it drizzle for weeks on end, I’m happy.
Well I used to hate it, every summer the same thing, it’s like every place on earth gets their own climate disaster these days: earthquake, forest fire, tsunami, flood, tornado, hurricane, something extreme, we don’t get any of that, we get unrelenting bloody sunshine.
But I finally realized that it doesn’t help to complain, the rain gods aren’t listening anyway or they don’t care. Whoever is in control up there wake up! They’re still asleep though, so I adjusted my expectations, realigned my perspective. If it’s not going to rain then I’ll jump in the fish pond and water my garden with a hose. To heck with it. There’s still water in the pipes.
Yeah that’s another thing. All the springs have gone dry, the Edwards Aquifer is at its lowest level since 1990 and still dropping. City planners have hooked up our water system to other aquifers and water sources so homeowners can continue watering their lawns and keep them green like we live in Merry Old England not in a desert.
Anyways, here’s the point of my story. I can adjust my perspective. It’s a great life skill. Comes in handy for any situation or circumstance I might find myself in. It is what it is and I am what I am. I’m gonna practice this. Gotta get good at it.
People, places, music. Communion, catharsis, healing. Volition, decision, motivation. They’re all mine if I choose them. Sometimes I feel lonely, sometimes I feel needy. But wait a minute, I am here with the accompaniment of the entire complete symphony of nature. All of everything is here with me. It’s a matter of perception isn’t it?
I discovered this music about the same time I discovered the trick of adjusting my perspective. It’s The Groovy Nobody: Solarium. They fit together so well, my new perspective and this music. Hey I think I got something here and started writing, driven on by Sunsick and Invisible and Solarium and When We Get There and Dance in the Sun. Wow. Sunsick.
I always wake up in haze
Drunken by ultraviolet rays that cover me
Can never quite recall the day
Not that it really even matters much to meAnyways
AnywaysGently nestled in the shade
Provided shelter from the old towering trees
I watch the branches as they sway
Small pools of sunlight in my face coloring meAnyways
Anyway
Perfik. There you go. Thank you Groovy Nobody. I got it.
I’m ready for summer. Burn it down. I’m good. I’ll even use air conditioning if I have to. Ride in the morning before the temperature rises. Take shelter during the mid-day like the deer and the coyotes out in the Salado Creek Greenway. Brownway more like it. I’m fine God. God it’s hot.
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