Inspiration often comes, as many say, through the beauty of nature. A habitual walk through a park or spending some time in a garden really gets the juices flowing in the human brain for many people. So, I decided to try it out. I put a sweatshirt on, grabbed my umbrella (after all, it is San Francisco), and headed out of the synthetically lit dorms into…sunlight? Yes. I walked across the USF campus and down to the Panhandle of Golden Gate Park. By this time, I had shed my sweatshirt and was irritated that I had not looked out my window before leaving my room. “But its April,” I thought to myself, “Surely it should be brisk, even if the sun is out.” But the more I walked, the more I realized this was a different kind of natural inspiration. Seeing the blooming cherry blossom trees along the dirt path forced a sudden realization into my head: this is the reality of climate change. This is what climate change looks like; what climate change feels like.
