Men at Work
A Moment with Merritt I live in a city with growing pains. One square block downtown is under construction with three pieces of yellow Caterpillar track equipment and one heavy-duty blue dump truck, all operated by three men. Their job is cleaning the earth of concrete, metal and asphalt debris. I sit with a cup of coffee on a gas station curb and study the man pushing sifted earth down into a pit that will house parked cars for the luxury apartments overhead. Another man sit
