The storm broke the heat. Like most summer storms, it built for several days, gaining in intensity and temperature, until yesterday afternoon it was close to 100 degrees. This is NOT Michigan summer, so something had to break. Storm clouds had been rising and dissipating for several days, but nothing was happening.
Except pressure.
When it finally broke, it brought with it that tremendous sense of relief that comes only when the heat peaks and breaks, taking the humidity out of the air. Huge blackness blanketed the sky to the south, while wind whipped the trees, hail fell, and trees were torn up.
That’s how this last week before leaving feels. The pressure builds, the heat intensified, we all get a little testy with each other over incidentals.
But come Friday, bags will get handed over and we’ll trip off to catch a plane. It will be like the release after a storm, and for that brief time between leaving home and arriving in Beijing, we’re free from all responsibility except to ride the plane. Total relief.
Meanwhile, the temperature is rising around here and I need to keep the fans going to stay sane.
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