The Basket on the Kitchen Counter
Every Thanksgiving morning, Maria Gonzalez sets a wooden basket on her kitchen counter in San Antonio before she starts cooking. Into it she places a...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Deuteronomy 26:1-11.
Every Thanksgiving morning, Maria Gonzalez sets a wooden basket on her kitchen counter in San Antonio before she starts cooking. Into it she places a single orange — the first piece of fruit she buys each November. Her children used to ask why. Now they know. Maria crossed the Rio Grande in 1998 with nothing but her daughter on her hip and a prayer on her lips.…
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