Letter From the Desert: Burning Birds 2

Second in a series of posts serializing an autobiographical essay on deserts, birds, and utility-scale solar. This essay is posted over the next few weeks as a premium for our paid members.

If you missed Part 1 it’s here:

Look: a small child sitting alone, book in his lap. An odd fly lands on the corner of the book. Impatient with the intrusion, the child swats at the insect with his hand before turning the page. He somehow has failed to learn what alternating black and yellow stripes on a flying insect signify, and the sudden sharp pain is frightening. He wails.