Every three months, the whole community gets together to pick up litter. We have participated in past years, and here we are again. While we were walking around, we connected with a couple of tourists from Spain who were so enamored of Taquile, the man kept saying, "This is paradise; Taquile is paradise."
Each of the six sectors of the island had their own territory and everyone participated, even children:
 |
| Add caption |
When we finished at the port, we hiked back up the island to Alipio's house where we refreshed ourselves with a watermelon that strong, young, Ivan had carried in Sam's backpack all day, even as he carried trash. I told about the Spaniard who kept repeating that Taquile is paradise and asked the group of Taquileños if they were cleaning up the island for their bag of sugar, or to maintain paradise.
The resounding reply was !Maintaining Paradise!
They know what they have here and it is wonderful.
On the way home, Big Samuel helped carry little Samuel who had been walking with his mother helping pick up litter all day. Two happy, if tired, Samuels:
No comments:
Post a Comment