El Desierto
Reflections of my time as a volunteer in the Southern Arizona desert.
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25 min readOct 14, 2019
2012.
I keep waking up in the desert.
I no longer feel the softness of my own bed, the smell of freshly cleaned sheets, nor can I sense the safety that comes instinctively knowing a bathroom is down the hall, a heater will kick on if I’m cold, and the home I sleep in is mine…