COMMENTARY
A cotton-grazing drought
Greetings from the Sahara. That’s my new name for this expanse of sand that is our farm. I exaggerate somewhat. The Sahara lacks mesquites.
Except I just looked it up. Per AI: “Mesquite trees grow in parts of North Africa and surrounding dry regions, having spread across the continent after being introduced from the Americas.”
Now I’m feeling an even stronger kinship with tho…