The Farmer's Market on Maple Street
Every Saturday morning, Rosa Gutierrez set up her stand at the Maple Street farmers' market in Topeka, Kansas. She sold tamales — handmade, wrapped in...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Luke 6:38.
Every Saturday morning, Rosa Gutierrez set up her stand at the Maple Street farmers' market in Topeka, Kansas. She sold tamales — handmade, wrapped in corn husks, stuffed with pork and green chile. Three dollars each. But Rosa had a habit that made her husband shake his head. Whenever someone counted out exact change with trembling hands, whenever a young mother with two kids on her hip hesitated at the price, Rosa would slip an extra tamale into the bag.…
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