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Air Conditioned Words, Part 2
A shocking electrical turn of events

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Yes, walking barefoot on the grass did indeed help. It is so wonderful to get electrically grounded. I’ve been consciously ‘Earthing’ every single day now for a few weeks. I am profoundly sold on it. It is becoming a daily spiritual practice.
Did you know that hugging a tree will also instantly ground you? So if you’re wearing rubber-soled shoes and you’re stretched for time, instead of taking off your shoes and socks to walk on grass, all you have to do is hug a tree. The same electrical grounding takes place.
Why are people on every block of the nation not running outside to hug a tree? Why am I the only one doing it?
I mentioned the triple-digit heat but today we are also experiencing a ferocious wind storm. Heat is one thing but hot wind is slightly more overwhelming. Or maybe that’s just me.
Seriously, the wind has been blowing so hard that I’m surprised that most of the neighborhood trees are still upright. Trees are such wonderful people. It’s amazing what kind of conditions trees can endure. They are resilient. A weeping willow tree once told me that trees love the wind. It’s their only chance to dance.
Anyway, it was later this morning when the electricity went out, due, no doubt, to the wind and the trees. (Out of control dancing.) That is what I get for thinking about air conditioning and electricity and living like a savage in a cave earlier in the morning. Ma Nature decided to give me a real taste of those thoughts. The electricity was out for four hours!
No air conditioner. No lights. No internet. Food melting in my freezer. Don’t you think a life lived say a thousand or fifteen hundred years ago would have been so joyful? There would be no electricity or TV or internet or air conditioning to worry about. Life would be grand.
During those four hours I thought a lot about what it must be like to be completely unplugged. The freedom must be simply overpowering. But with each hour that passed it got hotter and hotter in my domicile. I couldn’t open the windows and be flooded by triple-digit heat. And the air conditioner was silent.
It was 84 degrees in my apartment when the electricity finally came back on. For me, that’s broiling temperature. I now appreciate my air conditioner more than I ever have.
It sure was nice being away from the internet for four hours. I liked that. I could grow accustomed to that. But like a Pavlovian dog, as soon as the electricity was back I simply had to immediately boot up the computer.
The first image I saw on my screen was a map depicting a tropical storm headed for New Orleans. I guess the Great Plains is not the only place dealing with wind.
Have you ever wondered what the world would be like without any telephone poles? Not many people like to talk about the ‘Silent Genocide.’ But the sad truth is that hundreds of millions of trees were brutally murdered to build the power lines that criss-cross the world. Yet so few people are appalled by that. Telephone poles are dead trees who will never dance again.
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