The Little Things
I bought an electronic box cutter, and my ADHD brain is currently shouting "THIS IS THE MOST AWESOME THING EVER!" You see, we have been playing catch-up on getting rid of several months' worth of boxes at our house. For most of the summer, our area was in a drought. Florida typically has two seasons: the rainy season and the dry season. When we first moved here, it would rain every day somewhere between 4:00 PM and 5:00 PM. You could almost set a watch by it. I loved these 4:00 downpours (and they were often downpours). It would rain really hard for like ten minutes, then it would stop, the sun would come back out, and you'd go on about your day. They reminded me of the aguaceros in Panama that we would experience whenever I'd go with my Mom to visit her side of the family. To me, there was an extra bonus when these little pop-ups would come off the Gulf and smell like the ocean. Climate change has proved particularly brutal down her...