 today was a very hot day here in Toronto and it really it's really going to be the last hot day for many months it was full t-shirt and shorts weather really hot and humid full summer weather and it's now going into October and it's going to get cold and so my thought for today is about how significant that was to me and I wonder why why does it matter for some reason I love to follow the seasons and the weather there's a few things that I think they do the most basic thing is that the weather is our physical environment it is physical reality it's real there's not many things that we can say are more real than the weather you have feeling feeling of hunger the feeling of hunger is real pain is real the feeling of the earth beneath our feet and the weather really connects us to that basic physical sensation of reality so for people who live in we live in this constructed world where almost everything is almost everything we deal with is a constructed human world there's something so refreshing and real about just straight-up weather and the idea with the seasons the seasons are about change and time the seasons changing really bring out the feeling of time moving on when you have a season when it's going on you sometimes has that feeling that it could go on forever when summer into July and August winter into February and March here feels like they can go on forever but when you see those signs of the change into the new season it then it hits you it hits me the feeling that now wow look at all the time that has passed and look where we are now so both of those things are very useful for what I care about which is living a meaningful life which is what this is all about the weather itself grounding in simple physical reality helps to get out of the head get out of the thoughts of the past and the future get out of manufactured thought systems and just bring it back to the basics of the body physical reality here it is it's hot it's cold it's raining it's sunny very basic real things undeniably real unfiltered by any human influence although thankfully the human influence of a roof and heaters and so on those are very useful human influences but the eight but the weather itself to have that raw nature is it really helps to get out of thought holes the thought holes that are so easy to dig into and with the changing of the seasons that feeling of wow time is passing wow so much time it has gone that feeling helps to be the shock to the system to say okay how am I using my time when time feels like it goes on forever it's easy to waste it and when we feel the shortness of time any it's just another of those triggers that can help us to feel the shortness of time and when we get that hit when we are reminded of how much time is passing how quickly time is going that can be helpful to have the that bracing effective okay wow I can't just be sliding along here I have to use this day this day is very valuable day so these are the thoughts I had today as we have both incredibly hot weather and the knowledge that this is almost certainly the last such day until long after the end of winter here we start to dip the very beginnings into the cold season and so that feeling of time passing is once again hitting me strong went for a walk and just soaked it up and there's something so simple and good about it so yeah weather talking about the weather simple but real there it is and I'm glad to be alive to have the chance to experience it