trippin’

Harvesting time in Nepal brings you back to history. Everything is made by hand, and done by women. This lady was collecting dry hay and her fragile body was almost bending in two under the heavy burden, in the intense heat of Nepali lowlands.

She was just 50+ even if she looks like 80. Harsh life leaves marks. She was the first, older wife of her husband, and since she didn’t have any children of her own, her life was rather miserable, slavery almost. I think she deserves even this small thought to be remembered.

December 2002.