Witness ~Sari Stories Part I & II Child Marriage~ India

Both videos amount to about 30 minutes total and give meaningful insight into the homes and lives of four women through their filming efforts.  It is tender, honest and brave.  Having just watched it all the way through myself, it pulls something up for me.

My grandmother was married and bore her first child( my mother) of the  dozen she would bare, at the young age of just turned 14. The one thing about her life that stands out the most in my memory of her, as she died at a rather young age, in her late 50's, is how beautiful her gardens always were no matter where they lived.

A couple weeks ago, I stood looking out my back door at my garden, so glorious and colorful and I understood something I had been too young to see about my grandmother, my mother and myself... that is what unhappy women struggling in difficult times do.. create beauty with wild colors.

So the connect to my heart in the Sari stories is I now understand the bright beautiful fabrics and paints and decorative arts associated with India...