Jennifer Toon rekindled her love affair with nature after spending decades in prison
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After spending half of my life in a Texas prison, I learned how to make peace with locked doors. So when a global pandemic hit and the worldwide order to stay at home began, I was frustrated but prepared. I was accustomed to not being able to leave.
Then I had an epiphany. The door wasn’t locked from the outside. I could go anywhere I wanted – excluding bars and crowded restaurants of course. For me, this meant a new opportunity for adventure.
Being trapped inside a cell for so long forced me to suppress my innate longing for nature and all the memories attached to it. But in lockdown, my childhood love affair with Texas could begin to bloom once again.
from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2C1DAeB
