Gate's Business Is Grass
Monday, August 20, 2007
This is usually before six in the morning. Armed with her traditional grass cutter, a food container that usually has some leftovers from the previous day's meal and a bottle of water, she will begin her long journey to this place.
It is not a workplace that is made up of nice, air-conditioned offices or big and beautiful workshops. This is just a thick bush, with grass that goes as far as her waist. It is an 'office' in which maximum silence prevails except for the blowing wind and various sweet melodies of birds as they praise and thank the creator for giving them yet another day of survival.
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