Eighty per cent of Nicaraguans live on $2.00 or less a day. For more than half of that group, the figure is $1.00 or less a day.
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Why Gannet? Why Search the Sea?
- Gannet Girl
- Gannets are enormous and sleek creamy-white seabirds, with black wingtips, yellow heads and necks, and startlingly outlined eyes. They nest on the rocky cliffs of the European and North American coasts of the North Atlantic and, once grown, spend their days sailing across the ocean. The acrobatics by which they make their living ~ steep climbs into the air and speedy plunges straight into the sea ~ are rivaled only by those of pelicans. What better metaphor for a sweeping search of one's life choices and opportunities than a gannet extended above the waves, a regal and yet restless surveyor of the vast ocean surface? The gannet reminds us that life is an adventure in both beauty and profound unease, and that the sea itself is limitless in its textures and possibilities.
Gannet Way Out Over The Sea - a gift from Stushie
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5 comments:
Very interesting photos, GG. Looks like your husband really got out into the country on this trip.
Good pictures. Oddly, they remind me of my visit to Zambia last year. Third world countries have many of the same needs. Thank you for sharing them with us.
My son and I both looked at these pictures. He said "I bet they work very hard every day".
It is one thing to appreciate these pictures. I'll bet that your husband has a far more profound experience of seeing this place. Tell him thanks.
PG, he says that photographs and words cannot begin to convey the reality of being there.
I've been moved by all the photos in this series but none as much as these today. It sounds as though the trip had a profound impact on your husband. I had no idea that Nicaragua was as poor and 3rd world as it is. Thank you for opening my eyes to this situation.
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