Village People

This is my favorite part of going to the village......looking at the beautiful people. Under the tough, dark, aging, sun-burned skin and under the ragged, filthy, stinky clothes, there is a person JUST LIKE YOU AND ME!!! They smile, they laugh, they cry and they have feelings just like US! They have dreams, they have nightmares, just like US! More importantly, they are beautiful people who are surviving each day by collecting and consuming only what they need for the DAY to just make it through the journey of life one more day.......

I'm not sure if they have any "wants", their focus is on their "needs" for survival. They live off the land, one Cambodian friend explained to me. They eat frogs, bugs, birds, fish, rats, crickets, stalks of Elephant Ear plants, stems of palm tree fronds, and sometimes drink water from the rivers. Water from the rivers is the same water they bathe in and sometimes use the bathroom in that water. My friend said, "As long as there is water (from the rain), Cambodians can survive. If no water, we can not survive."

It really makes you think.........