Myanmar: Golden Harvest
“Golden Harvest” / Jessie T. Ponce / Bago Region, Myanmar / February 2016
A group of women harvest beans and prepares the ground for the next rice-planting season. In June-July, when monsoon rains start, these fields gradually turn into rice paddies. Rural farmers alternate vegetables and other “cash crops” for rice during the dry months, around November to March.
The drag of endless mental work in a strange land takes its toll. Fatigue can kill so petty escapades provide hopeful deviations from the brewing madness. An aging DSLR keeps good company to a walk around the neighbourhood, a short drive to a scenic place, or a silent recollection in a quiet nook granting that the host community and the elements of nature would allow one a safe passage to solitude and contemplation. Loneliness quickly turns to joy when something exciting gets captured by the cam’s shutter then set free into the laptop’s screen followed by electric words that rush from the fingers to the keyboard in an effort to describe the moment. Alas, the brain is alive once again!
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