Sunday, February 10, 2008

the simple version


Sometimes people back home ask me what Mozambique is like.

It's like the Old West, that's what it's like. It's dirty, dusty, muddy roads, and families eeking out a living on small plots of land and it's dim one-room shacks selling greasy food and women. It's washing clothes down by the stream, canvas tents of do-gooders handing out Jesus or cholera medicine, and it's wide expanses of grass and sky and openness.

That's why I like it.





2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Brooke, the picture looks like the field across from Grandpa and Grandma W's farm in OKlahoma. I can now understand why you like Mozambique! Love DAD

Anonymous said...

Hey Brooke, Your place looks just like ours, here in Utah.
Doug says "buy a horse!"
Love from me