I had read that weavers see the cloth as having a soul whose colors give off poder, power or heat.
Was it wrong to single out one boy for care in a country full of disabled children?
Julia Lieblich is an award-winning journalist and author specializing in human rights. A former religion writer for the Chicago Tribune and the Associated Press, her news and feature stories and op-eds have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Nation, Time, Life, Ms, and AGNI. Lieblich's first book, Sisters: Lives of Devotion and Defiance, is about how obedient nuns evolved into radical sisters, stemmed from a cover story she wrote for The New York Times Magazine. Her most recent book, Wounded I Am More Awake: Finding Meaning After Terror, co-authored with Esad Boskailo, tells the story of a Bosnian concentration camp survivor who becomes a psychiatrist in the United States helping survivors heal from the trauma of war. Her upcoming book is a memoir about a restless journalist who finds new meaning in an enduring relationship with a Maya family of weavers in a Guatemalan village. She is a Fellow at University of Southern California's Center for Religion and Civic Culture, a Scholar-in-Residence at the Newberry Library and an Ochberg Fellow at Columbia University’s Dart Center for journalists who cover trauma.