I'm freezing down here....

Woke up today to a breezy, grey unusually cold winter's morning - not a typical Sunday morning in Miami by any means. I've lived in my house for nine years now and I've never had to turn on the heat - that is until this morning when I looked at the thermostat and realized it was 53 degrees inside!!! We're just not equipped to deal with this kind of weather. My beautiful flowers in the garden are in shock, frozen iguanas are dropping from the trees all over town and my poor babies don't know what to make of it all. Cody was shivering so I decided to wrap him up in his "binky". He wasn't so sure about the idea at first, but when he realized how cozy it felt, he decided to just go with it - doesn't he look adorable!!!

He wasn't the only one in shock with this morning's temperature. I walked out onto the patio and found a poor little salamander frozen on the ground. Grey and stiff as an icicle. I picked it up to throw it out and realized it wasn't dead when one of it's little feet moved. I felt so bad for it that I brought it inside. I know, I know, I'm nuts...but the older I get, the more difficult it is for me to think of myself as not being part of a "whole". Every little creature plays a small part in the big scheme of things. At least I think so. I find I can no longer just think of me as the center of it all, as though all the things that surround me don't matter somehow - because I think they do. Maybe my Buddhism studies helped change my perspective. Of course that doesn't apply to roaches...I haven't gone completely insane. Anyways, I'm very proud to say my new little friend is doing great. He's back to his beautiful green color and seems to be enjoying the cozy indoors.

Just as soon as things begin to warm up a bit in a day or two I'll say goodbye, with a warm fuzzy feeling that I did something really, really good today.