Puerto Rico Daily Photo Blog

Carolina: And She Cried All the Way to Houston

2009-11-08T12:56:00.005-04:00

As far as I know, November 8, 2009 is the last day I will live in PR on a daily basis. I made a lot of friends, and expanded my family larger than I ever expected. And I did cry until I fell asleep on my flight to Houston. God is so powerful, what a life he has given me! I am so blessed to have an experience like this. Gracia Puerto Rico para todo. There aren't word to describe how I love you and the way you changed me. I am forever in your debt.

You know when you leave for a trip, you always like to see a familiar face at the airport. Just in case its your "last" trip. So I asked Vanessa and Omar to take me to the airport, they were the last people I wanted to see before I engaged on my next journey. Te Amo.

The longest journey is the journey inward.

Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)

Santurce: So you're leaving tomorrow? Yeah, I am, well tonight actually..

2009-11-08T05:49:00.018-04:00

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.

Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)

Miramar: El Pescador

2009-11-07T04:30:00.000-04:00

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns (1896 - 1996)

Miramar: Lets Eat All the Food

2009-11-06T05:42:00.000-04:00

If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'

Jeff Foxworthy

Santurce: Happy Birthday Ivonne

2009-11-05T05:35:00.001-04:00

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), quoted in New York Times, March 19, 1940

Pinones: So Long Farewell, I Hope We Meet Again

2009-10-23T05:32:00.001-04:00

Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

Richard Bach

Miramar: An Explosion

2009-10-23T04:47:00.002-04:00

The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence.

Krishnamurti

Santurce: Monday Night con JP

2009-09-15T04:34:00.002-04:00

God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.

Sir William Bragg (1862 - 1942)

Condado & VSJ: Happy Birthday Joven

2009-09-12T03:42:00.001-04:00

I am not young enough to know everything.

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

Puerto Rico: A Fantastic Summer

2009-09-09T15:22:00.001-04:00

September tries its best to have us forget summer.

Bern Williams

Ocean Park: Bomba on the Beach

2009-09-07T15:50:00.001-04:00

Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'

Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 05-25-06

Santurce: Monday Nights at La Respuesta

2009-09-07T03:30:00.001-04:00

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

James Thurber (1894 - 1961)

Las Piedras: Jose Spreads His Wings

2009-08-23T13:58:00.003-04:00

Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?

Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954)

Santurce: Janging with Yari

2009-08-08T15:08:00.010-04:00

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien

Isabela: Horses

2009-08-01T15:03:00.001-04:00

Somebody once asked Niels Bohr why he had a horseshoe hanging above the front door of his house.
"Surely you, a world famous physicist, can't really believe that hanging a horseshoe above your door brings you luck?".

"Of course not," Bohr replied, "but I have been reliably informed that it will bring me luck whether I believe in it or not."

Neils Bohr

Naperville: Farmer's Market & The Ribfest

2009-07-04T22:23:00.004-04:00

Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'.

Michael McClary

Chicago: The Taste

2009-07-03T22:28:00.003-04:00

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)

Chicago: Janging con Shesel

2009-07-03T22:07:00.004-04:00

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), "Eleonora"

Rio Piedras: Dancehall

2009-06-11T14:40:00.003-04:00

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

Miramar: An Orange Moon Reflecting the Light of the Sun

2009-06-07T14:47:00.002-04:00

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.

Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939), "The Dance of Life", 1923

Puerto Rico: Somewhere Far

2009-05-13T14:16:00.003-04:00

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.

Al Capone (1899 - 1947)

Aguadilla: Birthday Cake

2009-05-10T14:32:00.002-04:00

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988), Caltech commencement address, 1974

Pinones: Kiosk Bomba

2009-04-26T23:37:00.004-04:00

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

Ocean Park: Bomba on the Beach

2009-04-20T22:36:00.006-04:00

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

Miramar: NEPO @ CIRCA 2009

2009-04-16T22:11:00.002-04:00

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)

San Juan: Miramar

2009-03-22T22:25:00.001-04:00

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence

San Juan: BOmba

2009-03-22T21:40:00.005-04:00

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.
George Washington Carver (1864 - 1943)

San Juan: San Juan

2009-03-21T21:14:00.002-04:00

Most people are good. They may not be saints, but they are good.
Jimmy Wales, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006

Houston: Happy Birthday Phat

2009-03-14T19:02:00.004-04:00

We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
Werner Heisenberg

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
Tom Robbins (1936 - )

Houston: Celebrating Hawk

2009-03-12T18:43:00.003-04:00

There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.
Robert Byrne

Sanurce: In Space

2009-03-01T22:23:00.004-04:00

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant

Quito, Ecuador: San Juan Via Panama

2009-02-24T23:48:00.003-04:00

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)

Quito: The Last Day in Ecuador

2009-02-23T23:40:00.002-04:00

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940), Tender is the Night

Galapagos Islands: Last Day Hike

2009-02-22T14:15:00.005-04:00

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Tweek Vs. Craig, 1999

Galapagos Islands: Desert Island

2009-02-21T13:46:00.006-04:00

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999)

Galapagos Islands: Espanola

2009-02-20T10:40:00.005-04:00

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)

Galapagos Islands: Flamingos

2009-02-19T10:12:00.003-04:00

You don't need to outdo the competition. It's expensive and defensive. Underdo your competition. We need more simplicity and clarity.
Jason Fried, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006

Galapagos Islands: Charles Darwin Research

2009-02-18T05:07:00.004-04:00

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 14

Galapagos Islands: Santiago & Rabida

2009-02-17T18:36:00.007-04:00

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)

Galapagos Island: Early Sunrise with Yari and Late Night Views of the Milkyway

2009-02-16T02:21:00.007-04:00

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

Quito to Galapagos: Early Flight to Paradise

2009-02-15T16:53:00.004-04:00

Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)

Quito, Ecuador: Travel is Our True Love

2009-02-14T14:31:00.008-04:00

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator

Ecuador: Quito via Panama

2009-02-13T22:47:00.002-04:00

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck

Rio Piedras: Live & Direct

2009-01-17T22:36:00.008-04:00

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

Cantano: Bacardi Please

2009-01-17T22:15:00.003-04:00

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Donald Trump (1946 - )

VSJ: Fiesta Calle San Sebastian

2009-01-16T09:49:00.002-04:00

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

Carolina: Guess Who Made It?!?!

2009-01-15T09:36:00.002-04:00

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)

Ocean Park: Bomba en La Playa

2009-01-12T22:22:00.001-04:00

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)

Santurce: Rumba a La Respuesta

2009-01-10T23:16:00.004-04:00

A love that can last forever takes but a second to come about.
Cuban Proverb

In the Cut: With Juancho

2009-01-10T22:43:00.001-04:00

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"

Guaynabo: Janging con DJ

2009-01-09T22:35:00.003-04:00

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)

Santurce & Ocean Park: Bomb Sightings

2009-01-05T21:21:00.005-04:00

As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found--in himself.
Erich Frohm

Miramar: My Latest Piece by Jomary Ortega

2009-01-04T22:06:00.001-04:00

Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Steve Jobs (1955 - )

Carolina: New Years Eve 2009

2008-12-31T22:13:00.004-04:00

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.
Douglas Pagels, A Wonderful Resolution For The New Year!

Santurce: Plazita

2008-12-20T21:53:00.004-04:00

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Julia Child (1912 - 2004)

Santurce: NST

2008-12-20T21:02:00.003-04:00

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887

San Juan, Vieques & Pinones: This is Great.

2008-12-06T18:10:00.004-04:00

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)

Pinones: Bomba Set

2008-11-28T10:06:00.005-04:00

The arts must be considered an essential element of education... They are tools for living life reflectively, joyfully and with the ability to shape the future.
Shirley Trusty Corey

Utuado: In the Mountains

2008-11-27T19:15:00.002-04:00

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
M. C. Escher (1898 - 1972)

Carolina: Thanksgiving at Freddie's

2008-11-26T18:50:00.003-04:00

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
Hannah Whitall Smith, 1902

Worldwide: OBAMA

2008-11-05T00:17:00.002-04:00

...And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man.
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Speech in Memphis, April 3, 1968, the day before King was assassinated

Rio Piedras: Happy Birthday to Me

2008-11-01T21:04:00.006-04:00

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

Santurce: Calle 13 at La Respuesta

2008-10-28T19:26:00.003-04:00

I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter.
Beverly Sills (1929 - )

Santurce: Predator's Halloween Dancehall Reggae Classic

2008-10-24T17:28:00.004-04:00

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.
George Harrison (1943 - 2001)

Bronx: Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture

2008-10-11T09:27:00.001-04:00

A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists.
L. Ron Hubbard (1911 - 1986), Science of Survival

Manhattan: Julia Community Center

2008-10-10T22:33:00.006-04:00

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990), in Forbes Magazine

Bronx: La Pregunta

2008-10-09T21:31:00.005-04:00

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
James Thurber (1894 - 1961)

Bronx, Manhattan & Bronx: Looking Around

2008-10-09T21:20:00.003-04:00

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
Simeon Strunsky (1879 - 1948), No Mean City (1944)

Bronx: Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture

2008-10-09T18:59:00.003-04:00

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)

Brooklyn: A Revolution

2008-10-09T18:35:00.001-04:00

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)

Pinones: Bomba & COPI

2008-09-01T06:10:00.004-04:00

Never forget that you're a member of your own community. Don't do something that you wouldn't like to see done.
Keith Richman , Building Buzz for Your Web Project, SXSW 2006

Rio Piedras: Bomba @ Boriqua

2008-08-31T07:47:00.007-04:00

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)