The utter generosity of the poor humbles us. They give rice to every mendicant even when their rice is getting over. That is what they are defined by.
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Thursday, 15 December 2016
Village vignettes - Another one roomed house
Just takes four walls of coconut thatching, a 12' by 10' space and a roof of sugarcane leaf to make a home for three children and two adults.
The house is enough, and they are satisfied - but we need better nourishment, and more sensible healthcare and better village employment oppurtunities.
All that is also denied to them. To those who tread most lightly on earth.
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