One Year in Pandemia Part 2: Out from the Wild

The desert teaches respect for nature. So does COVID-19.

Eureka Dunes in Death Valley. Photo by the author.

In Spanish, the word for pandemic is pandemia. It sounds to me like academia or eudaimonia or even Portlandia: a state of mind, or a place, a world unto itself. This is a monthlong series on life in the pandemia, in response to Medium’s writing prompt.