Local Routine

We entered into lives where a daily routine of a family's survival includes a basic multitude of mouths to feed, clothing to wash, corn to grind, seeds to sow, tortillas to prepare, dirt floors to sweep, water to fetch, babies to carry & keep healthy. We attended to dental abscesses, rotted teeth, smiles filled with blackened cavities, headaches, backaches, stomach pain, eye damage (from sun & dust), blurry vision, to name a few maladies. Others were a bit tougher: a leg so infected, a little boy couldn't walk, a man with severe flesh burns & holes due to electrical wiring malfunction, an verbally & physically abused young lady.