Summer

Dear friends of piano music,

There is a first time for everything, and today I will quote Joe Cocker for the very first time: "Hot town, summer in the city (.....) Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the City. All around people looking half-dead, walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a matchhead ...... "If possible, you shouldn't spend the summer in the city, either in the country or on the beach ...... this year we stayed in beautiful Heidelberg, mainly because of the pandemic. Sure, country life has its advantages, above all you have a lot of space and can keep rabbits, while the people here on their tiny balconies seem to me like rabbits in very tight cages.  Above all, the heat in the country does not build up like in the cities, where the air-conditioning systems with their exhaust air make the atmosphere outside the cooled apartments even more unbearable. In the unusually hot summers of recent years it was often so warm in the apartment at night that it was hardly possible to sleep. This year the temperatures have been very moderate so far, there has been no real heatwave in Germany, so that even here in the city summer is relatively carefree - while in many parts of Europe it is so hot that it burns. In Mallorca, vacationers are asked not to go on excursions, as the rescue of vacationers who had collapsed on hikes due to the heat was already overwhelmed. You should only leave your apartment there early in the morning and late at night, and if you don't have air conditioning, you are recommended to spend at least two hours a day in air-conditioned public buildings such as shopping centers or libraries. What a vacation! And while here in Germany entire villages were recently washed away due to the extreme rainfall, in many places people have to be evacuated because of the heat-affected forest fires. No matter what you call it, whether climate change or climate catastrophe, we are already in the middle of it. The problems have been known for at least thirty years and nothing has happened.  I read the other day that parents are just not angry enough. Is that correct? I dont know.

Kerstin

(pictures: Sicily)