In the Summertime - ooooo oooo

Due to crazy hemisphere swapping, I have not managed to put my body through a summer of any significance in 3 years. This is not great... however, I have just experienced my first Canadian HOT day. It got up to a cool "feels like" 40 degrees C today!! Nice!!

Summer in the northern hemisphere is different, what can I say... very different. I like hot weather anywhere though, I have recently discovered. I used to think that I loved cold weather - cos you can ALWAYS get warm... however, a Canadian winter or two cured me of that erroneous belief. I suspect this might just be the "other side is always greener" syndrome!!

I visited some friends out of town the other day and I was reminded about how energizing getting outside the city is for me. Green fields, flowering canola crops, green trees and water - everywhere! And space - the prairies certainly do space well... and I am growing a healthy appreciation for/of it.

I have taken to cycling and running again - so I am actually outside quite a bit. I also garden, albeit in pots... so I do feel in tune with the seasons a little. However, while I remain inside the cement jungle I seem to turn off, become cool, rigid, and hard only to be reignited upon escape of the city limits into the open air where I can breath and relax and feel.

I am reading environmental ethics and loving it. I have found a home in the theory here. A language to utilize as my own. I am hoping to uncover/recover some of my ontological and epistemological ways providing an understanding about my beliefs and passions. An interest in personal sustainability activism is providing me with a useful "position" as I us these ideas and this language to explore/challenge/change my own practices.

Along with school is a healthy amount of play time... I am off to Cyprus Hills this weekend. Check it out http://www.pbase.com/dmcnichol/cyprus_hills This is what I am in for... I can not think of a preferred location (in north america) for reading and pondering environmental ethics!!

So wish me well this weekend. Wish me: blue skies, warm breezes, flowering perennials, rolling grasslands, shady coulée's of trees, deer running the right way, elk standing majestically, satiated bears and maybe, if I am very good a chorus of Coyotes!!

And have a goodie yourself!!