Harmlessness

My friend Duru is a painter. She lives with her mother, two sisters, a cat, and two dogs in a house they built themselves. Duru said when her family lost everything, even the place to live in disappeared, they built the house piling bricks one by one, even though they were unskilled. They have a garden full of various plants, and she does and gets many things from the garden. Her family has a meal with the vegetables from their garden, and she wears the clothes she made with recycled fabric and paints with natural materials. She said her home is like one of the Earth's breathing holes. While I stayed at her home, I felt an utterly harmless beauty and the strength of a woman.