(Editor’s Note: Our Muse, Milagros C. Rivera has submitted this post after a series of earthquakes have shaken Puerto Rico. We thank her for sharing this with us. She also had driven quite a distance to find an internet connection to submit a post after Hurricane Maria.)

Broken, an adjective, meaning having been fractured or damaged and no longer in one piece or in working order. it’s not truly a feeling but something going on right now in my island. About 2,000 earthquakes have been felt from December through now, in a lapse of less than a month our lives have changed.

et, we don’t feel that way. There’s a resilience ingrained in our DNA, a powerful will to survive and overcome. A need to help our neighbors above all else.

As an Artist, as a Maker, as a Muse I indulge in the knowing that art heals all, to us there isn’t a broken thing we can’t mend, no crackle too big we can’t fix. And that is what drives us through!