"A village is where..."

Posted Thursday night, December 5, 2019.

On a road leading out of her village in West Central Mexico, a little girl watches a cowboy riding his horse on his way to work. Adriana Zehbrauskas for the New York Times.

A village is where you’re reminded you are poor, where you starve and die; it is a place to flee. (“Take me you---take me away from here,” an old woman said to me later in my trip in a village in the Isthmus. “I don’t care where you are from. I want to go there.”)---

---from “On the Plain of Snakes” by Paul Theroux.

Photo from a beautiful slide show by Adriana Zehbrauskas at the New York Times, “In a Mexican Village, the Dollars Dry Up”, October 2007.