Photo: The Simple Things in Life

This Vietnamese woman was cooking a meal at a bus station in Chau Doc, in the Mekong Delta. When I asked if I could take her photograph she consented, and then, as she held up her half-peeled boiled egg, she broke out in a type of laughter so common in rural places throughout Southeast Asia. I laughed too, seeing in her spirit more of the joy I would like to have in my own.