So as the weekend has flown by working on my magazine, setting up interviews, transcribing and taking photos for my next assignment, I am thinking of all the incredible photos I have taken in Nicaragua.
Just walking around you encounter reality and see such a different way of life that at first you don’t understand why people do the things they do.
So it was one day we were walking along the beach in Puerto Cabezas. Not all of it is covered in trash, that will be another post. What I encountered was the turtle market on the beach at the pier.
To me this was shocking, to the people there is was everyday life and where their dinner was coming from, to feed their families.
Readers may feel this is cruel and shouldn’t happen but in Nica the second poorest country in this hemisphere, this is sustenance and a way to make money.
It is sad to most of us to see this, and the knee jerk reaction may be how can they do this?
Those of us who have a home filled with things we want, jobs that pay our bills, vehicles that take us to the mall (safely distancing of course) and the money to do pretty much what we want living in a country with health care, and a social welfare network, do not know what this dire poverty, hunger and lack of basic amenities is like.
In a country where being armed is the norm and people are just trying to survive we cannot judge folks for trying to live and take care of their families.
Have a safe and happy week Canada, remember being kind to everyone is the way to a better world.
thru my lens 