A gorgeous spider

A most beautiful and amazing spider on Culebra. I'll post a close up later. I have not identified this yet. 

When the World Cracks Wide Open

I'll take the world when it cracks wide open

And my mind right along with it

I'll exist there in uncertainty

Certain that it is the only place

Right then and there to be. 

Yeah, at times I wish I knew where

It's all leading other than death

For it's between birth and death

That it gets interesting. 

Two or three years on the island of my mind

Out go the shoots and tendrils of a life

Into the soil of dreams and sometimes harsh reality

Wet and dry, sterile and fecund with the ripeness 

Of endless permutative possibilities

Is it yet I've found a home for my restless heart and mind?

Tis the world I think that I embrace

Too full and rich at times …

Spilling over in tears and blood and love

Engulfing me in joy

Of the woman I've come to love

my family, friends and people I love

The commonality of our struggle 

In living and loving our lives. 

David McCullough

January 26, 2014

Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

First day - old San Juan, Puerto Rico

Exhausted but so happy to be warm. Found Finca Cialitos - wonderfully local coffee shop that owns their plantation and controls the whole production chain. Very very nice, professional and outrageously good. 

Skill and talent baby.