Beautifully written. I’ll let you get away with these blowtorch phrases because you are not a desert rookie. I love the summer, but a few great summer storms need to be part of the picture.
I lived in Tucson for 30 years and came to Colorado in the Summers as a potter at the Colorado Renaissance Fair. Now living in Colorado year round, I can tell you it is hot here, 91 right now. But, the sun doesn't assault me with ping-pong sized kernels of heat as it does in Tucson.
David: You capture beautifully what I escape from for a couple of months, but defend to the end a place that has become my home. Weathering the summer temps is today much easier for most of us than living through a Minnesota winter. Still, we must find the ways to make living in this beautiful land sustainable year round for everyone. I totally enjoy your humorous tirades. Even more, your essays cut to the core.
A picture forever in my memory with your wonderful descriptions of our desert in distress. I am encouraged only by my remembrance of the desert cleaned with afternoon monsoons. The odors will again be from heaven.
It’s really unimaginable how we go about our every day life’s in these hot temperatures. It’s also unimaginable how people live without air conditioning in our current temperatures conditions. I too like everyone else pray for the rain. To me, it feels like the monsoons come later and later in the season, and sometimes hardly at all. The rain comes in huge bucket loads, flooding the streets, and causing all kinds of havoc, (on at least one side of a road! and not the other). I’ve seen this myself on my own street.
“They“ predict that our summers will get hotter and hotter. Again, I find it unimaginable. Still will have to figure it all out and probably just live with it like we are now.
Beautifully written. I’ll let you get away with these blowtorch phrases because you are not a desert rookie. I love the summer, but a few great summer storms need to be part of the picture.
Thank you for putting it in beautiful words.
IT IS GOING TO RAIN
but Ofelia Zepeda
Someone said it is going to rain.
I think it is not so.
Because I have not yet felt the earth and the way it holds still
in anticipation.
I think it is not so.
Because I have not yet felt the sky become heavy with moisture of preparatio:
I think it is not so.
Because I have not yet felt the winds move with their coolness.
I think it is not so.
Because I have not yet inhaled the sweet, wet dirt the winds bring.
So, there is no truth that it will rain.
But it will. At some point.
G!d willing, good rains, not flooding rains.
Too sad. A couple weeks ago they were telling people to fill sand bags. Wishful thinking, I guess.
Better to have them and not need them, than to need them and not have them.
And, we sometimes do need them at some point.
I lived in Tucson for 30 years and came to Colorado in the Summers as a potter at the Colorado Renaissance Fair. Now living in Colorado year round, I can tell you it is hot here, 91 right now. But, the sun doesn't assault me with ping-pong sized kernels of heat as it does in Tucson.
Then you know that down here, we're happy when it cools to 90°!
Makes it a bit easierto do our huge mass NO KINGS, FIRE CISCOMANI, etc, demos!
Just hoping the monsoons are late🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼 I’m missing the little wildflowers.
Described all too perfectly... Unfortunately.
Come ON Rain… is my mantra. Onward slowly we keep moving on these torched daze … savoring the late evening and early morning air
Beautiful description of desert feelings.. reality … and wishes. Love your writing and mental wandering
David: You capture beautifully what I escape from for a couple of months, but defend to the end a place that has become my home. Weathering the summer temps is today much easier for most of us than living through a Minnesota winter. Still, we must find the ways to make living in this beautiful land sustainable year round for everyone. I totally enjoy your humorous tirades. Even more, your essays cut to the core.
Lovely
A picture forever in my memory with your wonderful descriptions of our desert in distress. I am encouraged only by my remembrance of the desert cleaned with afternoon monsoons. The odors will again be from heaven.
It’s really unimaginable how we go about our every day life’s in these hot temperatures. It’s also unimaginable how people live without air conditioning in our current temperatures conditions. I too like everyone else pray for the rain. To me, it feels like the monsoons come later and later in the season, and sometimes hardly at all. The rain comes in huge bucket loads, flooding the streets, and causing all kinds of havoc, (on at least one side of a road! and not the other). I’ve seen this myself on my own street.
“They“ predict that our summers will get hotter and hotter. Again, I find it unimaginable. Still will have to figure it all out and probably just live with it like we are now.
A devastating report.
Indeed.