You say, “It’s hot!” and mean “Is it hotter than it was last year?” You say it’s hotter than it was last year and mean “I take too many plane trips. I let the water run when I brush my teeth.” You say there was hardly any snow pack this winter and mean “The children of my grandchildren will be refugees selling seed cakes from a stall by the road.”
You say “spring” and mean “I hope there are bees left in the world.” You say “summer” and mean a certain science fiction movie. You say “fall” and mean something is falling from your fingers and you are letting it slip to the floor and you don’t know how to stop that and you don’t even know what “it” is. There’s nothing you can feel in your hand.
You say “Beautiful day” and mean “This moment is all we have.” You say
“wind” and mean the old god. You say “weather” and mean grace.
You remember when talking about the weather used to be code for nothing important to talk about.
But the person you are talking to is too young to remember that.
You remember when talking about the weather used to be code for nothing important to talk about.
But the person you are talking to is too young to remember that.
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