Skip to main content

STAY IN THE LOOP

Join our weekly newsletter!

* indicates required

From a vantage point decades in the future — lifetimes, to a child — I wonder if we would have made different decisions or crafted our images more intently, knowing that all of those infinitesimally significant, infinite decisions would add up to who we were in the eyes of other people.

Once a season of joy, summer's increasing heat now poses serious threats to Black communities. Addressing these climate injustices is crucial to ensure everyone can safely enjoy the warmth of summer.

 

Fostered around the essay and themes of noticing, Professor Wittman’s English180J asked that we defamiliarize ourselves and look beyond what the world has presented to us. While this may sound deep and introspective, it all begins with a small observation.

I was born and raised along the central coast of California, and the natural world that I cherish today is superimposed incongruently, in places, over the one I remember. Because of our changing climate, I carry memories of things that may not return again with the next season, if they ever return at all. The monarch butterflies were the first to teach me this.