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Retreats – spiritual, business or leisure – are necessary and beneficial.  I received this healing opportunity for three days. It was incredibly refreshing, renewing, and rejuvenating. The coastal town of Blanchisseuse, Trinidad, was the therapeutic hospital for my renewal. Three days of sleep, old talk, board games, eating, reading, writing, reflecting, with a mix ofContinue reading “Retreats and Renewals”

I never knew my grandparents.  I don’t know what they look like. I don’t know the entire story of their lives. I don’t know their personality traits or mannerisms.  I simply just don’t know.  They were dead before I was born. Growing up, I listened with sadness to the stories of my friends’ grandparents, orContinue reading “Grandparents!”

I received this 1930 cartoon from Archbishop Jason Gordon.  Look at it carefully.  Remember, it’s around 1930s. I thank God for the wisdom of my parents. Their wisdom saved my life and the lives of my siblings. Diligently, they carried us to the public clinic to receive all our vaccines – polio, mumps, small pox,Continue reading “Vaccination”

I stood at the edge of the cliff overlooking the greyish blue waters of the Caribbean Sea on Trinidad’s north coast.  The waves marched restlessly and chaotically towards the jagged coastline. The slopes of the cliff were littered with coconut trees heavily loaded with ripe and half ripe coconuts.  I stood under its shady canopyContinue reading “Simple Living”

Today, I had a ha! ha! moment. A moment rooted in newly acquired information. “Banana plants,” says Neil, “are self-fruiting, producing fruits from the female ovaries without the need for male pollen or another plant to help pollinate the flower.”  In a word, the banana plant doesn’t require the intimacy of two different sexes toContinue reading “Disingenuous Plot”

This morning I am feeling disturbed, distraught and dismayed.  It’s Saturday, July 17, 2021 – my eldest brother’s birthday…my brother affectionately called Alfie.  Happy Birthday, bro.  Oh!  My feelings aren’t because it’s my brother’s birthday. My apologies.  While writing this blog, I felt inspired to mentioned Alfie’s birthday.  The headline of today’s edition of theContinue reading “Accountability, Restitution and Sorry”

Someone once commented: “I left the private sector to work in the Church full-time, thinking that it’s a more loving, merciful and compassionate environment. After one year, I literally escaped, totally disappointed.”  On a separate occasion, I listened. “I don’t wish to get involved in church committees. I will give my financial contribution. Too muchContinue reading “Integral Human Development”

The COVID-19 pandemic resurrected my motivation to watch movies. I watched a Hindi movie with English subtitles called Do Paise ki Dhoop Chaar Aane Ki Baarish, translated Of Rough Weathers of Life. In this art film, Juhi is an aging prostitute whose 12-year-old son Kaku is wheelchair-bound. She finds it challenging to take care ofContinue reading “Sharing our Incompleteness”

Many secular movies have Christ-like figures. I watched one recently.  It’s a French movie called Mon Frère.  After being accused of the murder of his father, Teddy, a black boy, ends up in a Closed Correctional Facility, where other young minors like him get the opportunity to “reform” themselves before they end up in prison.Continue reading “Movies and Christ Like Figures”

I have a rectangular shaped standing fan – abandoned and ignored for a long, long, time.  From the time immediately before the birth of the COVID-19 pandemic. Why?  Its blades were intimate friends with dust particles. Plus… personal laziness! Out of the blue, my motivation to clean it resurrected. I marched it outside. Commandeered aContinue reading “Fathers’ Traits”