The Big E – Extremes

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100 – October, 2021

By Elaine Lessig

Talk about extremes!!!! Take notice. I deliberately put exclamation points, not question marks, at the end of the sentence. Why? That’s easy. It is alarming to see so many extremes in our daily lives. Just think about the weather recently. Hurricanes have been barreling through like eighteen-wheelers on the interstate. Torrential rain, destructive wind, and tornadoes have hit places where they rarely ever go. Raging wildfires have not just destroyed countless acres of land, but record numbers of homes. All that smoke then migrates into the atmosphere where it spreads across the sky from coast to coast. At some level, we have been touched by one or more of these recent extremes. Correct?

In the wilds of Western New Jersey this summer, we saw all sorts of those weather extremes. I can count on my fingers the summer days suitable for outdoor enjoyment. Instead, torrents of rain, severe thunderstorms, howling winds, heat records, and unbearable humidity dominated the season. After all those frigid months dreaming of being in the great outdoors, the inside of an air-conditioned space became the choice du jour for summer. One Sunday I actually had the opportunity to go to Yankee Stadium for a great baseball game. During the last two innings, I caught a baseball, and I have the photo to prove it. What is so remarkable about that? Well, it is unusual for foul balls to head in the direction of the seats where we were sitting. Thanks to the strong swirling winds and tropical air of Hurricane Ida, the balls carried straight into our section, one after another during those late innings.

Extremes exist everywhere. Let’s take a tour of the world we know best, Dogdom, where extremes abound. That sounds a bit like a slogan. Maybe, it should be. As the year began, dog shows started, slowly but surely, to return to our landscape.

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