I didn't observe Earth Hour this year; I was at a birthday party with a contingent of the city's political left. It involved more car bling outside the gate than the economy of some small countries (is that a Johannesburg thing? Doesn't anyone find it embarrassing to talk about inequality while driving cars worth more than the lifetime income of half the country? I'm sure I have my fair share of hypocrisy as well...but...Eish). The music was fabulous. I was surprised nobody cut the lights; but it probably wouldn't have changed anything if they had.
So, I figure I marked Earth Hour a day early, with the residents of flats 4, 6, and 7….Due to the continued siphoning of electricity across the street, we were out of power for 12 hours. I need to get my load shedding rhythm back; last winter, I had a whole routine of things I almost looked forward to when the lights went out - lighting candles, tuning up my viola, taking a warm rosemary bath....It was an excuse to log off, shut down, and unwind. Maybe I'm having a mental block because I don't want to admit that winter's coming.
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