Invictus

Out of the night that covers me,---------------------------------
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
--- William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)



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mgwest from
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Thank you Andy. How can we get in touch with Jereon please?
Lazybeacher from
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Now that you are leaving, what will happen with Bah? Will she join you? Will you return to see her again?
BruceB from
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Andy: I'm leaving for Costa Rica in three weeks. On May 25 I'll enter Guatemala and stay a month. You wrote that you might be in Guatemala after DR. Any chance we will meet somewhere there?