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Series end: Episode 1
After sixty-one years of living with my husband, he died this year and now, I’m alone but I’m not lonely or sad. So you, and all else want to know what I will do from this time on. Let me tell you…. I will arise and go now and go to InnisfreeAnd a small cabin […]
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On: The Colonized Mind
I believe we are a people who want to be colonized. Here we are, after the diaspora. We dusted off the grime of colonial rule and set up our tents in a new land in an effort to escape the consequences of our colonized past. We, who know full well the shame and the rigors […]
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Village Psychology
I heard this story from my grandfather who used to help those villagers coming to him from near and distant villages for advice. He was the Imaam in the village, wise and well respected by old and young. So well respected was he that the villagers followed his advice to the letter. “Beti”, he tell […]
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On “The Food We Eat”
There was a Time… I read and listen to the “now” generation talking about food. I see that there is a slight shift in the things they want to eat and the ways they think these should be cooked. They talk about “plant based” food. As opposed to what? I ask myself. “Animal based”? We […]
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On The Tired Wives’ Resort
The things we do. Cook, cook, serve, clean, sweep, vacuum, wipe, make up beds, do laundry, pay bills, shop for food, keep an eye on appointments, clean the yard, trim the bushes, sort the mail, put out the garbage, …. It has just dawned on my foggy mind that tired wives need a place where […]
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On: Being Content
I am contentAre you content too?Look!There’s a pair of us. To spend our days bemoaning For what we do not haveTo wish for things impossibleIs tiresome and sad. To be held a vile and vengeful prisonerBy poisonous discontentTo share a cell with greed itselfIs not the soul’s intent. We two have freed our jealous heartsContentment marks our […]
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On: Leisure for the Old.
Or as Davies puts it…… “What is this life if full of care We have no time to stand and stare No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep and cows?” If William Henry Davies were my neighbor, I might see him on my morning walks as he stops to […]
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Rural Legends and Tales – #3 : The Almost Virgin Bride
THE ALMOST VIRGIN BRIDE: True Story Hear this one. In the villages, when a girl get married, she got to be a virgin. If you is not a virgin, if you mother-in-law nah see a spot of red virgin blood on the bed sheet on the morning after the wedding night, you just got to […]
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Rural Legends and Tales: # 2 – Visit to the Ring-Maan (A true-true story)
De ring did get wan big, black stone that fix into it. People seh dat if you gat problem and you look in de stone, you does know wah fuh do. The stone does be like TV. But nah everybady can see ting in de ring, though. The pandit who own dis ring seh dat […]
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