Catching tadpoles
Personal memory by Erika Basto
1987 CE • Cieneguilla, Lima, Perú
Growing up we'd visit my grandparents at their country house. All cousins would go to a wide creek, and pick tadpoles, place them in bottles to catch them, then put them back. Years later, the creek was all dried out; however sweet togetherness memories stay.
Memory submitted at One Life: Maya Lin, National Portrait Gallery, 2022-2023
Image: Felipe Restrpo Acosta, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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