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On Small Seasons and Long Calendars – Ross Zurowski

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Designer and developer from Toronto.

Recently, I felt an odd longing for seasons. San Francisco has only two: pleasant and foggy. Trees keep their leaves year-round, and temperatures are consistently in the sweater range. It’s a city of eternal mild weather. This past December I went back to Toronto when winter was in full force. My phone told me it was -30°C. The downtown core was like a wind tunnel, blasting my face with high-speed frigid air. Why does anyone put up with this? I thought. But here I am, five months later, sitting in the California sun, longing for some crappier weather. It’s not the Canadian winters that I miss

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