The Tipping Point of the Great Awakening

Share thisWhen I was cat sitting at a friend’s house at the beginning of December, something unusual happened, which I intuitively viewed as a kind of tipping point. It was December 1, and as I sat in the kitchen that evening, I noticed how unusually warm it was in the house compared to previous days. A couple of hours later, around 10:00 at night, I went outside. It was a balmy 70 degrees outside! I checked the weather app on my phone and the temperature was 46 degrees where I lived in Felton, just several miles away. Then I checked the temperatures in the nearby towns of Saratoga, Campbell, San Jose and even downtown Los Gatos. The temperatures were at least 20 degrees cooler than where I was. So weird. So, I spent some time outside that night, enjoying the warmth, looking up at the stars, half-expecting to see a…