Can't Access Mac Desktop from Jupyter Notebook

[ItsMeLarry]

I tried to read CSV file from my MacBook Pro desktop. The Notebook doesn't recognize the file path to my desktop; doesn't exist. When I did os.getcwd, it returned with /home/dsxuser. When I check, the Finder doesn't see /home. When I open Terminal and cd .. back to the drive, on ls, I see /home. And I can cd /home and on ls, see /home/dsxuser. Finder still does not see any of this. In Terminal, when I try to do a cp /users/gina/Desktop/filenam.csv to /home/dsxuser/filename.csv, Terminal tells me that /home is not a valid path. Weird; in Notebook, I get message that /Users/gina/Desktop is not valid path, in Terminal /home/dsxuser is not valid, but it's visible on ls. My system is acting like the Notebook created a goofy disk partition and nothing can cross it. What is the problem? What do I do?