As we were coming home from a wedding on Sunday, I was perusing the beauty of the day. Two people on this crazy journey called life dedicating their lives and love to each other in front of their community. I was thinking of writing about that this week until I was distracted by the smoke on the horizon.
We live in Portland, OR. We tolerate the wet winters (which aside from this past one are not really all that terrible) for the amazing summers of blue skies and moderate temperatures. We may have a handful of days over 90, a week tops. However, that was the days of old, and much like the weather all over the world, we are experiencing extremes in our weather with locals scratching their heads saying, hmmm, I have never seen this before. For over a week now we have been over 90 degrees, with a few days over 100. Add in smoke that has been converging from multiple forest fires, you get signs on the highway saying Please Limit Driving Heavy Smog! Both the heat and fires are leading to alerts once an hour popping up on my phone saying extreme heat, extreme fire danger, poor air quality, please limit time outside. These are not things you should ever see here 🙁
So, I am diverging from my normal blog to bring you a parody today, which was honestly much harder to do than my normal blog! As we were driving home, the song “Killing Me Softly With His Song” by Roberta Flack was filling my head, but I was changing some of the lyrics around. This is a link to the the You Tube version of it, so you can sing along. It doesn’t always match up, sometimes you need to stay on a word for a second or two, but you will get the point.
Running with pain with this haze Trying to breathe with this smog Killing me softly with this smoke Killing me softly with this smoke Filling my lungs with this crap Killing me softly with this smoke I heard this was a cool place summers not too hot And I'm looking at my dashboard in my my car And there the temperatures continue to rise Running with pain with this haze Trying to breathe with this smog Killing me softly with this smoke Killing me softly with this smoke Filling my lungs with this crap Killing me softly with this smoke I feel all flushed with the heat embarrassed by the sweat I feel my lungs are burning every time I breathe deep I pray the rain will come and put the fires out Running with pain with this haze Trying to breathe with this smog Killing me softly with this smoke Killing me softly with this smoke Filling my lungs with this crap Killing me softly with this smoke Climate change is here how can you doubt it now? Listen to the experts and tell me it's not there The extremes in temps are happening all around Running with pain with this haze Trying to breathe with this smog Killing me softly with this smoke Killing me softly with this smoke Filling my lungs with this crap Killing me softly with this smoke
