December, Puerto Rico
Text & Photos: Julie Schwietert Collazo
I’d forgotten that you wake up with the sun in Puerto Rico.
This morning, despite having gone to bed at 4 AM, we woke at 8 AM, with light streaming through the bedroom window and the sound of roosters announcing the day, however unprepared we were to welcome it at that particular moment.
We’re here for a couple weeks, house and business-sitting for friends who own a guesthouse just outside the rainforest. The morning routine has changed a bit. Instead of going straight for the computer and coffee, I head up the hill and feed the chickens and dogs, then hunt for some chicken eggs. I walk the dogs, keeping my eyes open for passionfruit fallen from their vines. Then, I pick up the grapefruit rolling down the hill, having been loosed from their limbs. I squeeze six or so and make some fresh juice.
And then, it’s coffee and computer. I sit in front of a window and look all the way out to the ocean. I procrastinate by tracking cloud patterns.
We lived here for 2.5 years and there are a hundred reasons I’d never come back.
But waking up to this light… I have missed this.
December 4th, 2008 at 9:03 am
Tough life Julie. I’m glad to see that you can enjoy and appreciate it.
December 4th, 2008 at 9:20 am
What are the hundred reasons why you’d never come back?
December 4th, 2008 at 10:15 am
I knew someone would ask, and I thought about writing more, but the post would have become a rant. I probably will write something at length later this week.
December 5th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
LOL! at Data Entry Services
Would love to be in Puerto Rico right about now
December 6th, 2008 at 4:47 am
It is a hard knocked life for you? Did St. Kitts work out?
December 11th, 2008 at 2:46 am
Wow..the rainbow is so nice!