Waiting to Call Home
The goatherd lies awake in his camper in the murky gray of dawn. His alarm is set for 5:30, but Christian Cordova is already stirring. He stretches and switches off the ringer before it can join the birdsong chorus outside. His herd of 600 goats sleeps nearby, within eyesight and earshot, still bedded down among the rolling hills of Oakland’s Mills College campus. Cordova rises to make coffee.
Forty-five hundred miles away and two hours ahead, in the small Andean village of La Oroya, Peru, Cordova’s wife and three children are also starting their day. He has yet to meet his youngest child, eight-month-old Lui, who was born after Cordova
