Rebuilding

Slow morning wake up.

Coffee, eggs, and reading.

Helping Rual, Ramon, and Liberato drag up fresh cut pine beams from down hillside.

Grab the students. Lend a hand.

Panting uphill. Hands sticky with resin. Rebuilding our hut burned down from the fire two months ago.

Hammer and nail. Hot tea and shy conversation with the guys.

First classes in afternoon. All me.

Grinnel journals and philosophy of natural history. Imperial gaze. Geographies across space and time.

Work day, reading day, fresh start.