Work is love made visible

The title quote is the epigraph in Women of the West by Luchetti and Olwell and the quote faces this photo.

Her yard is a shambles and she's currently living in a hole in the ground.

While that's true it is also not true.

She's not living in a hole in the ground; she's living in a place she and her family have built for themselves with their own hands.

This woman has pride in her home and hope in her dream.

Until recently, all I could see was the squalor. 

Look at the folks on the top left, arrayed in the deep mud, surrounded by their animals and guns and children.

Look at the folks on the bottom right and notice their livestock grazing on top of their sod roof.  They are posed in their Sunday best- clean aprons and combed hair, fancy hats and rocking horses.
  
These are people showing off their work in progress.

Their work.
Their farm.
Their home.

Until recently, all I could see was the squalor.
But not anymore.

Now I can see the love.