Lending an ear.

CONNECTED LIFE Now that time has placed almost 50 years on my back - and the world's population is feeling the shock of Covid - I have to say that my days are easier to bear if I reconnect with the little girl I was in a place where the cultivation of corn was a fundamental part of family life. The seeds stay up here, and their leaves and flowers grow so that they can give us the gift of their fruit. In the same formation they had used to plant the corn, the workers now stooped low to uproot the smallest corn plants or the ones that had still not learned how to embrace themselves or separate with open arms. [Extracted from the article]

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