A deep bow and two apples

Photo 2023 by Alice Walker The man who appears tiny as he repairs a palapa in my garden seems like a magician to me. I wish I had words in his language to tell him how impressed I am – instead I offer a deep bow, and two apples.  Yesterday a friend took me to look at a dusty, far from “civilization” village of perhaps thirty residents. As I gazed, he said: this is the village of the palapa makers.  Nothing was shipshape.  In the heat and dust, nothing stirred.  And yet, here is where genius live...