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Imagine what it must be like living through a brutal heat wave before air conditioning was invented. Dig deep into your genetic memory. Everyone has experienced this in one life or another. And we’ve had many ancestors who have endured debilitating heat. In the overall scheme of things air conditioning is still a relatively new invention.
Yet our children and their children are growing up in a world where indoor air conditioning is a given. Why be outdoors in sweltering heat when you can be inside. Just crank up the A/C.
Right now I am thoroughly grateful for my air conditioner. But I am also a bit annoyed.
Normally at seven-thirty in the morning I am at my laptop with the windows in my office opened, as the birds perform their morning show. A gentle, cool morning breeze washing over me.
But we are in the midst of a little heat wave. The temperature has been over 100 degrees (Fahrenheit) several times in the last week. We practically went from winter straight to summer. Maybe that’s just me.
So this morning at seven-thirty I’m at my laptop but the windows are closed and the air conditioner is running. (At seven-thirty!)
