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On Presence
There was laughter from my friends when I realized what was written
on the badge, perhaps because those closest to me had an idea that the
wording mirrored quite well how I felt while I was there. And with
every return, that sense of wonder and strangeness that I experienced
the first time in the Russian Far East would come back. Now, I have
not been in the Kamchatka Peninsula for a long time, but I still have
that badge. It is a constant but also well-hidden reminder of the ex-
traordinary sense of self I experienced in the peninsula. Of presence. I
say well hidden because, as you might realize by now, in many places
silence is key, and these things are rarely talked about.
