Sunday, March 27, 2011

Hamah, Syria

Every day, mothers send their little boys to buy bread at the bakery. It's useful work and a reminder of how important children are in traditional economies, even urban ones. To the Christian quarter he courses home, making his way past the ancient citadel, now no more than a mound of earth cloaked in springtime green. [1996]

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