While I have PLENTY of thoughts and photos to share with you about my incredible trip to Cuba earlier this month, right now I only have time to offer a few of the pics I took. Each picture has a story, which I will include for you to read sometime. They aren't in any particular order right now.

color photos:

• the group: me and my fellow Peace Studies Missioners in the Havana airport

• a painting of Che, whose face is all over Cuba -- on buildings, walls, shirts, paintings, postcards and more.

• a young boy whom I met at a cafe near the Plaza de la Catedral

• a man selling fish

• three kids at the Havana nursery school we visited

• an open marketplace selling books

• the view from our hotel

• a group of young singing Cubans

black & white photos:

• looking out across a Havana courtyard through the arch of a building's balcony

• Varadero beach: black & white film doesn't do it justice, for this beach has incredibly gorgeous blue ocean water and fine white sand.

• two boys standing behind me at the speech/rally

• a view of Havana from the roof of the Hotel Capri

• the wonderful family I stayed with the last two nights we were in Cuba

• Yasser y Gelsie: two fabulous guys my age with whom I spent an afternoon -- walking, talking and eating lunch -- after I spontaneously met them in mid-Havana

• inside the office of Pedro's friend; part of a photo gallery collection (which includes the original print of Ché's famous portrait)

• part of the crowd of a student rally march we participated in, walking through Havana to celebrate the 40th anniversary of a student revolt right before the revolution

• the rally ended up here, at the Plaza de la Revolucion

• this photo shows you my view of the speakers on the steps

• I enlarged the previous picture to show you the main speaker in the center: Fidel Castro!

• inside a Santaria (a sacred place for an Afro-Cuban religious sect), this man shows us his temple for the gods, as he is flooded with sunshine from a nearby open door

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