Tuesday morning the New York Times ran a report from Syria about refugees from that country’s civil war who have resettled in the last redoubt they can find: ancient ruins of long-dead cities in the far northwest of the country, at the outer edge of the only territory still held by the rebels. It’s the kind of piece where the photos seem to tell the whole story—a tent camp erected in the crumbling marbles of a Roman temple, solar panels and a satellite TV dish atop the walls of a Byzantine trading post, all populated with hard and hungry-looking kids.
I greatly enjoy your dispatches from another part of Austin. Protecting the vulnerable Austin homeless community is one of the things I am passionate about so this one especially touched me.
On another note--one of my friends took a picture this weekend that looks a lot like your photo captioned "Viva las ramas". We could not come to a consensus on the purpose of those hexagonal wooden things that are in some parks. For a game of some sort?
Another powerful piece. Thank you.
I greatly enjoy your dispatches from another part of Austin. Protecting the vulnerable Austin homeless community is one of the things I am passionate about so this one especially touched me.
On another note--one of my friends took a picture this weekend that looks a lot like your photo captioned "Viva las ramas". We could not come to a consensus on the purpose of those hexagonal wooden things that are in some parks. For a game of some sort?