This is a picture I did not take
of an elderly, barefoot woman with a collar of faded tribal tattoos around
her neck, wearing a threadbare shawl and one earring, as she followed me
on a five kilometer morning walk around Lalibela, Ethiopia, talking to me
the entire way in a language I don't speak, beseeching me for birr, and
from time to time pointing at me, saying the Amharic word for "foreigner"
and laughing.