Thoughts of a minibus traveller

  Weaving dry leaves   Saturday afternoon and sun hot. There is bench with shadows of the leaves of a nearby tree on one half, and light on the other.  Sit on the shadow on the bench.  Looking to see when the others will come for the meeting. We decided, fresh air and outdoors, Botanical Gardens.  Two people sitting under another tree. A lot of blue and pink balloons around, look like gender-reveal parties are a thing in the gardens.  Ice cream music far away More shadows of leaves appear on the bench. Time reaches for the meeting. Plan to come and be creative , in community.  T No one comes. I have a pen,and a small notepad. I have work to do at home I pick up a dry leaf and shade the texture on a paper, then take a blue ink pen to trace out veins and so.  Finish that and no one still coming.  Place not too hot.  Take out a page from the pad. Remember high school 'clothing and textiles' with warp and weft. Decide to weave the grass in a way. imagining a kind of mosaic mat of

(This is not a review of Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson )  Guard The business place invited me and a lot of others to come  and do a transaction so we could continue doing business with them.  A lot of us probably would go elsewhere but like so many relationships which are bad, leaving is not always easier than staying. I pass one guard , not really seeing him as he is shorter than me and he tells me to go to 'the woman there' .. "the woman there" - another security guard, smiling , polite, tells me 'don't worry it wouldn't take long', relaxed stance.",, and 'you here , might as well stay.." when I realise that I am in the black hole of customer waiting. Sit down and take out Open Water.  I have started, stopped, started many times since I got it over a year ago. Place nice and cool with the AC, some children running around.  TV has cricket India and Bangladesh silent silent. Ads and so for 'NRIs' .. and loans and so. Radio

 Pink grapefruit  "Dem is one fuh 200, 3 for 500, dem is One for hundred" the man shouted at me in the market after I stopped and looked at the two baskets of pink grapefruit. I started picking up the smaller onesit to feel them , he continued 'three for two hundred'  Different sizes, some have the pale yellow skins , others the green skin with splotches of pink.  Teeth and so been giving me some issues and I wonder if something is wrong because in this oil and gas , climate changed economy is rare to find citrus going 'cheap'  and some are not juicy or not 'sweet'   I feeling to see if anything wrong, fingers working the fruit while mind going through all kind of things that .. dis can't be true.. I wonder if exxon people reject them and send them back, or if is Brazillian extras the man get.. or is it stolen property and the man hustling to sell off before police come .. (There was another man who used to sell ortanique cheaper than everybody els

 (The Moving Circle of Artists' work is presented in the 2024 Indigenous Heritage Exhibition at Castellani House until 30 September, 2024. ) There was no print catalogue available. The QR code image was around, but I did not have the technology to use the QR code even with assistance of the attendants. I hope the organisers will put labels on the work items for viewers who cannot access the QR code. I apologise to the artists whose work I reference without the proper attributions Going into the unknown Place hot and I feeling a lil jumpy despite the yoga routine earlier in the day. Some unexpected challenges which pile up and then come in to chill out in the gallery and find that I have to do guess work on the art and so. Switch my mind, thinking yeah, go into the unknown.  NO titles to guide you.  Friends on social media had shared pictures of some of the most striking pieces so there is a familiarity in a way. And a helpful attendant shows the PDF on his phone to check prices

Sweet potato One of the sweet potato has sprouts coming out and I say right, come on man, get going, do the thing the   recipe which came through on social media. I could plant the sweet potato, but my hand got blight so best to eat. I chip up the shoot to add in the salad as a woman I know uses the leaves to make bhaji. The other salad thing I use is celery - luxury in these oil and gas times, instead of the curry leaves. And I forgot the chilli and didn't worry with mint, substitute eschallot for green onions.   Coconut milk Sunday morning and first thing I do is grate the coconut. I cannot imagine a coconut milk dressing as coconut milk seems too thin. So I say right, will put in fridge, then let cream rise and use that. And garlic on my mind as people telling me how to use garlic to get rid of the wind which seemed to have moved to the chest. I can't find the nice round limes which give the best tasting juice and fragrance.. nine limes for two hundred dollars of the limes w

  Guyanese people/People from Guyana  Man sends me a socialist propaganda film from Guyana 1972 and I was like hang on a minute, where the coolie and the Indigenous and other people in it?  The film maker might only have had access to descendants of the enslaved Africans ,and it was only at the end that there were some children who could be descendants of immigrants from India. I am racial like that when hearing 'Guyana' and people from 'Guyana' and so and looking to see who look they descended from where or mixed up, and counting.  Sometimes I count gender representation first.  When I see the things about 'You know you is Guyanese when.. ' and nuff of the things don't apply to me.  But in this day and age, with AI , I check to see if 50 years later, how has the data from the digitised images and stories about Guyana fed into the AI Image generation  I try the freebie Microsoft AI Generato r  AI Imaginations And the prompt People from Guyana in the gard