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A young male lion sits in a bush at the Ol Kinyei conservancy in Masai Mara, in the Narok county in Kenya, on June 23, 2020. | Credit: TONY KARUMBA/AFP via Getty Images
I’d never been away from Africa for as long as I had over these past 10 tedious months. So, as I watched the blood-orange sunrise from my plane window as we descended into Nairobi recently, I couldn’t hold back the tears. The emotional exhaustion of this year all seemed to release with my arrival home in Africa, this big-sky country, which never fails to grip my soul. I felt a newfound humility and the thrill of simply being alive.