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About Eric AshfordTimeline (1949 - ) |
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Morning Market
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Early dawn
and the market in Chaing Mai huddles by the floating mists of the Ping river. Young girls squat over upturned straw hats. Hats full of small dangerous chillies, or tiny smoked anchovies. They chatter like little birds and smile shyly as we barter for a few cupfuls of their produce. The market people are not from the city. They ride in on bicycles from the villages, sometimes all through the night. They have only a small amount of fish and chilies to sell but their patient work is so lovely to watch as they pour their labour into old newspaper carefully bundling and tying the purchases together with a pink ribbon of raffia. They offer this token of their livelihood to us and they also offer us the chance to share in their simplicity. They offer us grace. A few coins are passed. It is a simple thing we partake in but so much more than an exchange of money. It is ritual of recognition where we see the needs of each other. Such very different needs we have yet here by the crossroads of the dreaming river they are the same. A holy thing transpires.
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