I go these places and I meet these people and see and do these things.

And I want to tell you about it. I want you to understand it and feel the things I felt. But I know in my heart I will fail in the telling. Fail in helping you to understand.

And so I can only offer the occasional photograph in the hopes that it will make you feel something. Something close to all those things I felt in those places. I hope.

I took these a few nights ago, far away in a wild place full of ghosts and violence and beauty.

I'm not back yet. But my body is.