Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

We're having a heat spell, and the situation quickly ignites fears about fire. This is our terror time of year, even without Covid 19. The anxiety arises that people will seek the beaches and pools and coolness and in the process compromise their safety. Today one of the newspapers has a photo of kids in a pool - privledged, white kids, as if the economic and class divide wasn't already apparent enough. Poor neighborhoods have higher temperatures, due to crowding, asphalt, lack of trees and green belts. People can die in this heat, but mainly those who are already disadvantaged in so many ways. I'm praying we get through this next week without fires, but I jump every time I hear a fire truck's siren.