To stand outside at this moment is to stand next to a campfire. As long as we stand here, in this moment in time, we are impossibly warm. Yet, take a step back and remember that the cold beckons. The heat we feel today shall pass, though it may burn a few things back from the edges. In many parts of the country, it will take a few lives. We're simply creatures who are somewhat cognizant of our journey through this cosmic soup and today we're all impossibly worried about the heat. Will our air conditioning units make it through and keep us cool? Will our gardens wilt? Will we manage to survive the walk to our car? I can remember the cold of six months ago, and I imagine many of us then would have traded that moment for this moment. And many of us now are loudly wishing we could go the other way round. This summer is perhaps the busiest I have had in my life. There has been no slow-down, no let-up in the information I've had to sift through in order to let people kn
Striking down the mundane and dastardly while retaining a certain obscure turn of phrase, denoting something elusive yet concrete.