Sentences with phrase «across old tin cans»

Swapping boardies and flip flops for boots and gloves in sweltering heat they climb over the landfill, across old tin cans, building materials, bottles, plastic and everything you could possibly ever imagine in our disposable culture, looking for our target recyclable material — glass.

Not exact matches

a knee - level view from your bit of pavement; a battered, upturned cooking pot and countable ribs, coughing from your steel - banded lungs, alone, with your face to the wall; shrunken breasts and a three year old who can not stand; the ringed fingers, the eyes averted and a five - paise piece in your palm; smoking the babus» cigarette butts to quieten the fiend in your belly; a husband without a job, without a square meal a day, without energy, without hope; being at the mercy of everyone further up the ladder because you are a threat to their self - respect; a hut of tins and rags and plastic bags, in a warren of huts you can not stand up in, where your neighbors live at one arm's length across the lane; a man who cries out in silence; nobody listening, for everyone's talking; the prayer withheld, the heart withheld, the hand withheld; yours and mine Lord teach us to hate our poverty of spirit.

I came across some old buckets and galvanized containers, and even an old tin watering can that was kind of rusty but otherwise in pretty good shape.