From the monthly archives:

May 2008

On Blogs, Blogging, and Various Related Tribulations

31 May 2008

So the first thing I want to say is I own/manage three main blogs (there are others, but I’m too ashamed to draw attention to them because they’re sadly neglected):
Blogworld
Scavella’s Blogsphere
Ringplay.com (currently down for maintenance)
It’s hard.
It’s hard because (a) I don’t really have the time to do any of them justice, especially as I’ve been [...]

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Finally!

27 May 2008

Back to basics.  I’m talking about the theme here.  I hope you are happy; I am.

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Our Heterogeneous World

26 May 2008

… and if you don’t know what that long word up there means, go look it up.
I was reading Shashwati’s Blog this morning.  It’s been a long time since I’ve checked her stuff out, which doesn’t mean that I don’t value what she says, but rather that I really have not had the kind of [...]

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Freedom from Tyranny, Freedom from Fear

18 May 2008

My father has been dead for twenty-one years. Is there a day when I don’t think about him? Probably not, as I sit in his chair and attempt to restore the work that he did in the heady early years of our life as an independent nation. Certainly not, when I survey the land that [...]

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Reading Michael Ondaatje

16 May 2008

It’s May, which means that in a few weeks my nephew Jaxon will be a year old, and it’ll be a year since I went to Montreal, and a year after it was decided that we would not be hosting CARIFESTA X, and a year more or less since I started reading Ondaatje again.
Now it [...]

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I was tagged

14 May 2008

and I even drafted the response. But I lost it in a mini-freeze of the programme I drafted it in. So Daniel, please forgive me for the long delay in my responding. Know that I intend(ed) to!

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Changing Pace

10 May 2008

Underwater Sculpture Park in Grenada, West Indies by Jason de Caires Taylor
 
I came across this gem while surfing poets’ websites. It took my breath away.
Go have a look.  Let’s tip our hats to the dream that became amazingly, hauntingly, real.

Vicissitudes

Grace Reef
 

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Can You See Us? (Video)

4 May 2008

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Can You See Us?

3 May 2008

Thanks to Erica James at the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, I was led to seek out this series on the statelessness of children of Haitian parentage growing up in The Bahamas.  You’ll find it on YouTube.  I don’t know who made the movies, but every Bahamian should watch them — especially those Bahamians [...]

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