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work is never done

It’s a life I cannot imagine – taking fishing boats out all night, coming home at dawn to sell the catch, then spending the day making repairs to nets, equipment, or the boats, then repeating it day after day.

My life has been very sheltered.

Porticello, Sicily
photographed 2.1.2025

local expert (probably)

Two benches, facing the fishing-boat harbor, had three men on each of them. It felt like they knew every single that had happened or was likely to happen in their town. I had the idea the seating arrangements were the same every day, and that this gentleman, on the end of the bench that afforded the best view, had ascended to the power position through his long tenure of being watchful.

Porticello, Sicily
photo
graphed 2.1.2025