8/1: air, conditioned and un-

I am grateful for air conditioning.  It's hard to imagine living in Arkansas without it.  But every summer at some point the air conditioning messes up my sinuses, and today I reached that point.  After years of this mid-summer syndrome, I know what medicines to take.  And by this evening, though I wasn't feeling completely well, I was well enough to go out on the lake to watch the sunset.  Now I'm sitting on the porch with the cats.  Time in the unconditioned air is helping.  (And it's wild to be surrounded right now by the sounds of thousands of frogs and crickets in the dark--the cats' ears are at attention.)