Migrant in my backyard
Salinas, California
For many years I’d held onto this image of a Hispanic police officer standing in the lettuce fields of the Salinas Valley while migrant farm workers stood by.
Something had happened that brought him there. What, I didn’t know.
Truncate—
We think we are exempt from natural law. The very laws that created us. But a strong mutating, invisible virus can wipe out entire populations. Or a small increase in worldwide temperature. Or mostly ourselves, if being faced with a radical change to our way of living, or even our comfort level. We are no different, I thought, even though we think we are.