Heat Wave Blues

meme by @queersatanic (IG)

Reading the news for the past few days/weeks/months/years has really got me down. Seeing the melting power lines from the west coast, the building collapsing in Florida, and getting the text alerts about power outages thanks to the heat here in nyc, I have been feeling new depths to the hopelessness that only thinking about Climate Change can bring. This is tough for me, a self-proclaimed chronic optimist, because my natural state is hopeFULL. But what is the purpose of co-creating a better world, if it’s an impossibility? As we are seemingly hurtling towards extinction??? Oh, and let’s not forget that no one with any power to change things seems to be interested in fixing our harmful ways of interacting with the earth, our home, our mother AT all?!?!

But, life going on the way it does, my partner, dog, and I rode the elevator down with one of our sweet neighbors this morning. As we all clamored to hold the door for one another, we all bathed each other in earnest thank yous and smiles and giggles at our good manners and the awkwardness of the humanity of walking in the same direction as someone you aren’t necessarily walking with. As soon as I stepped out the front door I exhaled relief “UGH it feels so much better out here!” My partner agreed, “it really does” as the neighbor prayed “thank God.”

I teared up thinking I guess, at least, we’re all in this together.