Lucy

Lucy used to help us with our household work for the last couple of decades.She is terribly ill now, and is admitted in the Kottayam medical college hospital. A brave lady, who fought all odds to make both ends meet, yet pleasant and happy always. She is a very important part of our backyard. I captured this photograph a couple of years back, and still have not given a copy of it to her. Now, I am not sure whether I will be able to do it. The price of procrastination.

Here is a blog entry by me about Lucy published in the year 2012

Lucy is one of the bravest woman on planet earth. She is a widow, and has two sons. One of them is mentally challenged, and it is Lucy, who takes care of him. Lucy earns her living by doing household work of the rich in the village. With her savings, she constructed a small single room house recently, and is running around for help to fix the main door, which will cost around USD50. She spends most of her savings to take care of her sons. She gets them good food. Every year she goes to vailamkanny which is a pilgrimage center (Mother Mary appeared here), with her sons. When I see her fighting all odds and still enjoying life, she is a kind of an inspiration.....for people like he, who has already started worrying about a recession that is going to happen in 2012:-). Once in a while I ask Lucy about the impact of recession on her life....and the reply is a smile...:-)