Currently in Los Angeles — December 8th 2022
By Renée Reizman — Dec 7, 2022
More sunshine and winter temperatures
Thursday is going to be bright, sunny, and cool, which is the perfect weather for my last day of the semester! When I'm not writing about the weather, I'm teaching digital art and graphic design to university students. We'll be critiquing our final projects indoors, unable to enjoy those mild highs of 61°F, but I'll have cookies and a skylight filtering in the sunshine.
In one course, the class has to make a zine about environmental issues. My students have been thinking about things like desertification, urban sprawl, water contamination, and bleached coral reefs. But these Zoomers also seem very hopeful about their future, which surprises me. They dedicated the zine to future generations, and seem to think that maybe if they care about the planet, their children will be able to see the poppies bloom. I'll be dreaming about their soil eroded wastelands when the sun sets and the clouds gather, and temperatures fall into the 40's, eventually giving us a chilly low of 42°F. —Renée Reizman
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