ALERT: Shoppers in France smash open supermarket doors in a mad dash to get their hands on air-conditioning units amid a heat wave.
Record-breaking heat waves have been sweeping across Western Europe, with some countries hitting 104° Fahrenheit.
Only about 24% of homes in France have air conditioning, and shoppers at Lidl supermarkets near Paris rushed to buy AC units.
A poem from Charles Bukowski's "On Cats", published posthumously, 21 years after his passing in 1994.
My Cats
I know. I know.
they are limited, have different
needs and
concerns.
but I watch and learn from them.
I like the little they know,
which is so
much.
they complain but never
worry,
they walk with a surprising dignity.
they sleep with a direct simplicity that
humans just can't
understand.
their eyes are more
beautiful than our eyes.
and they can sleep 20 hours
a day
without
hesitation or
remorse.
when I am feeling
low
all I have to do is
watch my cats
and my
courage
returns.
I study these
creatures.
they are my
teachers.
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