take cover

okay, so, as a caveat, let me start this post with the statment that i know very little about the hijab.

and now i will continue with my post which actually has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with heat and the heatwave.

yesterday on the bus home i saw a woman in a hijab. but not the kind of hijab that you tend to see around here most of the time, which is mostly just a covering of the head. this was a full on, cover it all, just a tiny bit of space for her to look through so she could see where she was going.

and it was black.

and she was walking.

honestly, i'm not sure how she maintained a vertical stance.

35 degrees (95 fahrenheit) with a humidex that made it feel something like 46 (115 fahrenheit)or something, sunny, and, well, just all around thick. i was in a short skirt and a spaghetti strap shirt and i was dying.

and she was covered head to toe in swathes of black fabric. (one hopes at least it was cotton or linen and not something synthetic)

a stronger woman than i.