Tower of Wind

Today was hot and muggy, still lifeless heat. The sun dragged down on you, adding weights to my shuffling feet as they struggled to work out what to eat for lunch on such a day. 

Still no swimming, tonight was a race to the theatre to catch a play before dinner, a sociable night full of conversation with friends. 

Walking home it was still hot and motionless, the heat not retreating in the face of the darkened night. And then just as I thought the days fatigue would surely drag me down there came that magical moment as I went down the last little incline to my building, that cooling whip of fierce wind, that pocket of weather unique to my apartment block that just catches the tiniest fragment of wind around and whips it round and round in circles. 

It is so magically cooling and reviving, a true wonder indeed. I am indeed a million miles away from the rest of  the city