
Semester 54 Third Expedition: Connection, Revitalizing Pools, Feeling Capable and The Power of Returning
Amelia Madrigal I will be back to Utah. I whispered it to the flowers and the cacti and the cryptobiotic soil and the pour overs and the petroglyphs and the granaries and Jacob’s chair in the distance and the twelve-hour days and the crumbled up tortillas and the swimming. I told Terry Tempest Williams and Kazuo Ishiguro and Dave Eggers and James Baldwin. I told Lily and Trilby and Mack and Lucy and Lucy and Charlie and Tessa and Nina, while laughing at Canadian Boyfriend. I didn’t realize the desert blooms in May. The desert greeted us with graupel and snow. During the storm, I cooped up in a cave