Photo by @johnstanmeyer | In Jordan, I walked through this windswept valley, Wadi Hafeer, with Salmeh. We chatted, Salmeh in broken English, me in ruinous Arabic, mostly listening to the silence and the bleats of his goats. Petroglyphs were carved here 8,000 years earlier. Our ancestors began to walk through this valley (wadi) some 60,000 years ago. In many ways, we are hardly different from when we started that human migration from lands further south, in what today we call the Horn of Africa. Our primary distinction is the borders we've created since, dividing us. As we neared his encampment of his Bedouin family, Salmeh's wife called out. He stopped briefly to listen, but the moving herd was too loud. At that moment in this natural cathedral, as the sun spread near-shadowless light inside the ravine and worn hills, I felt timeless along the highway of our human existence. From the @outofedenwalk article series. To see more of my work, please follow @johnstanmeyer. #jordan #WadiHafee...