A joy
Antonio is a man who clearly enjoys the life he lives, though it
is a struggling, energetic sort of joy and a poor, hardworking life.
It is a joy that surrounds him and anyone he is with. He likes people
and he likes visitors. Antonio likes to talk, maybe because of the
many solitary hours spent in the fields since he started working
at age eight. He bought his first piece of land when he was eighteen,
now he has five acres with corn, beans, organic coffee, a few cattle.
You can see the depth of his feeling for the land when he touches
his coffee plants, it is with the tenderness reminiscent of a mother
touching the cheek of her child. His well-run farm is a mirror of
his joy, but it does not give enough to provide for his family.
For money he still hires himself out as day labourer to larger farms
nearby. |
