July 10, 2022:
It's not safe here. The heat, the isolation. Face plant at the wrong time of blistering day, they'll find you weeks later, decomposed.
Months to goal. Repair one artifact, then the next, then the next. Eyes on the prize: the necessary change.
Where every day it's one foot then the next. Through exhaustion and obstacle and impediment. Like walking under water, in one hundred thirteen degree heat.