Paradise in Plain Sight – Happy Birthday, Puerto Rico – From the Children of Paradise.
November 19, 1943 _ November 19, 2018. I didn’t Forget your birthday, but I was unable to send birthday wishes, so, Happy 525th Birthday Puerto Rico!
“Like the entire world we live in, bounded only by how far we can see. I began to garden. I got scratched, tired, and dirty. I broke my fingernails and ruined my shoes. I yanked out what I could have kept and put in more of what I didn’t need. I pouted and wept, cursing the enormity of the task. I was resentful and unappreciative. But when I ventured afield, sidelined by things that seemed much more entertaining or important, I always came back to this patch of patient earth. Time after time I realized that everything I want or need —the living truth of life, love, beauty, purpose, and peace —is taught to me right here, no farther away than the ground beneath my feet.” Paradise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden by Karen Maezen Miller
Columbus discovered Puerto Rico on November 19th, 1943 and called it the Island of Enchantment.
A Star like no other. Mid 20th century rural dispensary, Ponce, Puerto Rico. khrizrivera on Instagram
Portrait of a Man, said to be Christopher Columbus (1446 -1506) Artist: Sebastiano del Piombo (Sebastiano Luciani), Italian, (1485–1547) Date: 1519. metmuseum.org