Sunrise in Huatulco

Huatulco is a town located at the southern tip of Mexico on the Pacific Ocean. The countryside is rugged, almost desert like with large iguanas roaming the landscape giving it a primordial feel. This sunset picture was taken while I was walking the shoreline of the Pacific Ocean created by volcanic eruptions hundreds of thousands of years ago. The image got me to thinking about a poem by Suzy Kassem in which she talks about the sunrise and sunset of our lives. It is something we all experience, but what comes in between is left up to us to tell our own individual story. Here’s the poem, titled Heartwork: “Each day is born with a sunrise and ends in a sunset, the same way we open our eyes to see the light, and close them to hear the dark. You have no control over  how your story begins or ends. But by now, you should know that all things have an ending. Every spark returns to darkness. Every sound returns to silence. And every flower returns to sleep with the earth. The journey of the s