Photo Credit: Author's image bank This first month of the 2024 is at its end and with it we say goodbye to family, friends, our jobs, children going off to school and perhaps partners starting something new, elsewhere. We may try to hold close to a love that no longer thrives or a family member … Continue reading How do you live in and with this world, courageously?
Author: Patricia Angoy
What lies at the end of the world?
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?
What do we leave, when we leave?
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?
What’s Going On?
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?
What do we still carry from our past?
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?
A gift in kind?
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?
Where in the World?
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?
“What moves at the margin?”
Photo credit: Toni Morrison by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. Location on the shelves at the BNL: 81 MORR To: 1 w In one of the closing paragraphs of Toni Morrison’s Nobel Lecture, as recipient of the Prize for Literature 30 years ago in December 1993, she talks of this place; the margin. This liminal space we once … Continue reading “What moves at the margin?”
When did we go picking mangoes together?
Image: #visitguyana In conversation with my granny in Guyana when I was about seven years old, I began to talk to her excitedly, disagreeing with her vehemently about one or other fact, as young children often do with their elders. She stopped me in mid-sentence and asked; “Since when did we go picking mangoes together … Continue reading When did we go picking mangoes together?
How do we remain hopeful?
Author's Image: Forest in front of my home It is a question I asked myself each evening, as I sit down to eat, and look out as village life closes in. One important part of this time in looking forward to the next day has been for me to look back through the long legacy … Continue reading How do we remain hopeful?
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