It turned hot outside. Not the humid sticky hot, rather the dry intense heat. The hot that makes you feel like you're running a fever after being outside for a few minutes. The sun is intense, especially in the middle of the day. But when the sun starts setting it gets cool again, and that's when I like to go outside.
This evening I went outside to sit in the courtyard. It was right about the time when the neighbors come out to relax for a while. I watched kids playing basketball. Grandparents sat around chatting. A monk was working on starting a fire in the center incense burner. Kids were running to find small sticks to add to the fire. Ladies sat and talked on their cell phones. Other kids were playing jump rope. Another monk was sitting at a sewing machine sewing a big piece of fabric (guess the weather and lighting were better outside???) Then a thunder storm started to blow in and everybody cleared out and went back inside.
