Going Home
When I arrived in Africa in mid-January, I wrote to my friend Oliver that I felt a strange familiarity, a sense of calm and gratitude that I hadn’t felt in previous travels, even to the land of my grandparents. “I feel more at home here than I did at times in Sicily,” I wrote. “You are walking on the birthplace of humanity,” Oliver replied. “You are home.“ Every morning and every night, at Siyanfunda Endangered Species Reserve in South Africa,…