Gloating

Awareness is an amazing thing, isn't it? Take climate change, for instance. It's probably been going on for quite a while now -- at least, I think scientists are saying it's been an issue for longer than we've been aware. But lately, we seem to have this consciousness about it that we've never had before.

Politics, the media, entertainment....they've all drawn our attention to this issue repeatedly over the past year. It's reached a frenzied, fevered pitch now, and we're putting more effort into arguing discussing what we can do about it, how it will affect our children, and how each particular political party can parlay it into election success why we've let it go on for so long.

And of course, I say all of this simply because it's a gorgeous day here in Vancouver, with a record-breaking temperature of 16.5C. The sun is shining brightly, a few meandering clouds dot sky, and the snow looks like it's clinging desperately to the tops of the North Shore Mountains after having engulfed them right to the bottom last week. Yup, we've got all of this while Ontario struggles with weather disaster. It's stunning how incredibly disparate the temperatures can be from here to there. But today, I'm simply going to do some quiet gloating : ) And as little polluting as possible.