Grace Under Fire

Anna posed for me to take her photograph at the shelter while she sat in her wheelchair. Her husband was looking again for work of any kind so that they would qualify for a government stipend to move into an apartment. This has been their life for the past 22 years. They are hard working intelligent people, immigrants who fled to the United States because they had to leave their country due to political unrest. Jose was a chemistry student in University and he brought beautiful Anna, the love of his life, with him. There were no schools where she grew up in rural Mexico, poor and without formal education, and she understood English but could not speak it. They are my husband and my friends now. We will find some work for Jose to do in our yard.