It's time for a siesta!

When the temperature reaches 80-plus Fahrenheit, I can think of nothing but looking for a place to shelter myself from the scorching sun.  During these dog days of summer, air-conditioners and electric fans were yanked up to their maximum capacity in both private and public places.  But relief in air-conditioned rooms is both temporary and limited.  It appears to me the summer days are getting hotter each year.  And we all know how uncomfortable it can be when stepping out of an air-conditioned car on a sweltering day.  Besides the need of immense amounts of energy to power them, the air-cooling appliances we use today also emit extra heat into the  atmosphere.

So instead of using or inventing more "smart" apparatuses to cool us down, we should follow what some Spanish speaking people have done for centuries.  I read in Wikipedia that some people in countries with Spanish influence still observe this old tradition that was practiced many centuries ago under the rules of  the Spanish Empire.  Each day they close their shops at noon for a couple of hours.  So eveyrone can take a breather or two from the hottest hours of the day.

What a aplendid ideal!

Ayee

PS This piece was meant to publish in July after that unbearable heat wave that melt some hard candies that I kept in a glass jar.