ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 9月2日 22時45分

photo by @randyolson | words by @neilshea13 — He arrives early every morning to the rock pile by the roadside, takes up his hammer and begins. Breaks big volcanic cobbles down into smaller ones. Clack-tap, clink-tink, sharp sounds cutting out through the desert. At 2 pm he stops, finds some shade, falls asleep. At 4 he returns to making gravel, though it isn’t any cooler. The sun still crushes—it might do the work for him if he’d only wait. He holds the stones in place with the sole of a sandal, then brings the hammer down just hard enough. Economy of motion: every desert creature knows. He tosses the pieces onto the pile, which grows and does not grow, never much bigger than this, never much smaller. There is always someone coming to gather it up and cart it away. I spend a few hours trying to remember him. He is barely there. Did we meet? Did we speak? The photograph is proof. Randy remembers, he saved a few details. It happens. We try and try to be looking the same way, seeing the same things, like scientists. In the evenings we compare notes by lamplight, below the bat shadows. But sometimes one of us is tired, distracted, or ill, or looking out the other window, or cursing or killing a bug while considering unpaid bills. And we miss it, just like that. In the end we make one story, though really it is many little pieces, chopped up and thrown together. Randy says we saw this and so I believe him, which means I believe in a shirtless Sisyphus breaking rocks forever at the roadside, hammer glinting, sparks flying, sweat falling. One day I’ll go back and see.

These Instagram pieces are part of our ongoing project, #NGwatershedstories, and they’re linked to our feature on Kenya’s Lake Turkana in the August issue of @ナショナルジオグラフィック magazine. Join us @randyolson and @neilshea13 as we follow water down the desert.

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