Why it’s okay to be sad
March 30, 2017 World Poetry Day Umana Yana Dear Nana, Charlene Wilkinson is reciting poetry in the tongue of our people to the beat of African drums. It is the kind of sound that tugs at your heart until your soul makes itself felt. I am listening to her and I miss you. I miss you more than any man’s language can ever tell you. … Continue reading Why it’s okay to be sad
A Love Letter (Love After Love)
Dear Self, I read Derek Walcott’s “Love After Love” for the first time a few weeks ago. Yesterday, I heard that he’d died. I could not believe it. How could the creator – of those moments in my life where I was wildly happy or able to see with unparalleled clarity – be gone? But then, I suppose he’s not really gone. Not so long … Continue reading A Love Letter (Love After Love)
How feeling loss increases our ability to love
I’ve lost three people I loved very much this year. Two of them I lost to death and the other I lost to what happens when people are not honest with each other about who they are and what they really want. My mother’s youngest brother died just after New Year’s and one of my favourite, and perhaps funniest, aunts died at the end of … Continue reading How feeling loss increases our ability to love
For Dave Martins – 100 Reasons to Hope: Reason #3
Dear Dave, Over the last weeks, I have been going into selected communities to help implement a project for the Guyana National Youth Council. I have never been so inspired in my life. I have gone from street to street meeting honest Guyanese who are passionate about building this nation. In Region 5, I met a local government official who said that they understand that … Continue reading For Dave Martins – 100 Reasons to Hope: Reason #3
Politics Will Not Decide Who I am
When I was 7 or 8, I lived along Craig Sideline Dam at my grandparents’ farm house. I farmed my own little plot of cash crops to help buy my school books and I spent hours stooping in slushy mud, between pakchoy and lettuce banks, picking snails and weeds from among the healthy, thriving plants. This is something I haven’t very often shared about myself. … Continue reading Politics Will Not Decide Who I am
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