Author: pangoy

Shelter in the Fields: author’s image captured 29 April just outside Wahl, Luxembourg Have you ever questioned yourself? Doubted yourself? Wondered if you were clever enough, brave enough, generous enough and all the other ‘enoughs’ out there? If you haven’t then just swipe across to something else that maybe enough or more. But if you … Continue reading When are you, enough?

I found myself in the air I breathed from the moment I walked onto the tarmac from the plane. I found myself along the dusty road from Timehri Airport to Georgetown. I found myself in every street and around every corner, in and out of Stabroek and Bourda markets, by the sea wall, walking on … Continue reading What do you discover when you go home?

I have to admit that it has been very difficult for me to be hopeful this February. I have looked on at a world in chaos and turmoil where it seems that our world leaders have gone mad and insanity has overtaken.  I turn to the land, which is quiet now in the northern hemisphere, … Continue reading Don’t over-think that one Meema!

Photo Credit: Patricia Angoy There are countries you pass through, countries on your bucket list to visit, countries so far away that you cannot reach them during your lifetime and others that don’t allow you to visit. There are countries that are an easy train ride away and others that require crossing several time zones … Continue reading What lies at the end of the world?

Credit: The San People of Southern Africa, 4000 years ago This penultimate month of 2023 marks the end of schooling for many in the southern hemisphere. Graduation ceremonies evoke a plethora of emotions from students, their parents, teachers, and other members of staff that keep a school functioning and growing.  As young people finish their … Continue reading What do we leave, when we leave?

Credit: Pinterest It is over 50 years since Marvin Gaye released this album and signature song, What’s Going On. It seems that the answer is the same as it was half a century ago; racism, police brutality, drug abuse, environmental degradation, poverty and war.  However, I think it would be a mistake to think we have learnt … Continue reading What’s Going On?

Photo Credit: author’s own photograph (with edges and shadows) Image left: personal gift from the Bailey family, see more @ https://baha.co.za. Image right: African Beauty by Phindile Mamba, see more @ https://yeboartgallery.com This month of September has given me the opportunity to read around what I can source, so far, of my own heritage and that of black Guyanese. … Continue reading What do we still carry from our past?

It was 9:30am on Monday morning when the doorbell rang. I opened it to my neighbour carrying an old tin basin filled with freshly picked green beans. He asked me if I knew how to cook them. He then invited me to take what I wanted.  A simple gesture that conveyed so much. He trusted … Continue reading A gift in kind?

Photo credit: author I am learning to look at what I can see in the images I have taken in the places I have lived.  From time to time, many of you will look at printed photographs you may have in old shoe boxes, as I do. Some of you may even be fortunate to … Continue reading Where in the World?