The last few days I've noticed that the temperature is a little higher than normal. Especially in the later part of the day. Now I've never been one to pay much attention to the weather. The only time I notice it at all is when it's consistently over 110 degrees.
But when it gets there I do what most of us desert people do: I find some cool air and stay there til later in the day. And fortunately I work in an office and am forced to spend most of my time there resolving minor isssues that come with running a recovery program.
But when the heat returned this time last year I think most of us were looking at it a different way. At least some of us. I think some of us thought that the heat would slow down - or maybe even kill - the pandemic.
Of course I think that most of our thinking about the pandemic was wishful thinking. And while I think that science has helped slow the spread, as far as any of us know it might have been the masks and distancing that has slowed things down. Who knows for sure.
As for me, I think the biggest lesson I learned was to continue to accept the world as it is. And I say that because right now there could be some new bug procreating is a distant land - maybe something even more terrifying than this current pandemic.
I learned a long time ago in the rooms of recovery that acceptance is the best antidote to most challenges and that's how I live life today.
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