I love this picture. I took it during a fascinating meeting between the municipality of Telica, the cooperative, and an NGO. Up at the volcano we always meet under that big Ceiba tree for shade. But I can’t help but thinking that in a few hundred years anthropologists studying Nicaragua will find my picture and say, “Villagers welcomed all guests under the Ceiba tree because it symbolized friendship. They would place a turkey into the middle of their meeting circle to symbolize respect.” In reality the turkey just wandered into our meeting and made a gobble-gobble ruckus.