mamama

mamama
Originally uploaded by quiquemendizabal.

I've been looking at this picture for a while, now. It's in my screen saver and it pops up quite often on my screen. This is probably one of the best pictures of my grandmother. My mum's mum. She is palestinean, born in Bethlehem, catholic.

A powerful and strong woman. She has worked and cared for others all her life: and you can tell. The work, you can see in her wrinkles; the caring in her eyes and her smile.

You grow up with people around you -all your life- but hardly ever look at them. Look-look, I mean. It takes a picture to do it. And even then, it'll probably be a few months or years until you notice something that has always been there but you were blind to.

She always smiles at me.