Mother and two children
Friday, November 25th, 2022 Year 3 I love this picture I love this picture, it speaks to me in so many Love languages, bearing messages too numerous to count. I imagine myself sitting across from the trio, considering the urge to distract the older child that the mother might get just little bit more of a badly needed respite. But then I think, "I am but a sojourner through these parts, and I do not know the local customs and perhaps an old man, who is a total stranger, is seen more as threat than an unknown friend offering a helping hand". So I resist the urge to intervene and merely observe and since the mother sleeps, quite frankly I can stare, taking in the details of a life stretched thin. The mother's face is thin, perhaps a drug addict? Or the result of self-sacrifice that the children's are not? Or perhaps just accumulated fatigue of doing the duty meant for two? Her hair is cut short. Perhaps driven by the necessity of additional minutes needed to st