February 5, 2022

This was one of those winter days when it’s far colder than it looks outside. If you glance out the window you see a bright and sunny Saturday. You forget that the heat is on high inside, so high that you push open the window beside your bed to let a bit of fresh air inside. February begins swirling around your apartment and the cold from outside combined with the clanking radiator makes it feel a bit like April or May inside. It can’t be that cold, you think so you go outside, dressed for spring. Then the wind and chill hits you and you realize just how much work the radiator and the pipes are doing in your building, and just how frigid the early February air feels. Walk quickly. Keep pace and keep the blood flowing.