Coming Home from School

This year I went to the state of Bahia in Brazil and visited some families and places in the hinterlands. The most memorable place was a family-grandmother, grandfather, daughter and daughter's two children ages seven and nine. They were living in an abandoned house on top of a hill. They had electricity, no running water. They fished, had chickens, ate fruit from the rain forest and somehow had enough money that their puppy and children were healthy and well fed. The two girls had a thirty mile bus ride to school in Cochiera. Grandmother was the gentle matriarch of the family. Thank you Ernesto Bazan