Lotus and violin music in the Cathedral, in Guyana, yes Guyana....

There was a lotus pond inside the Brickdam Cathedral on the same day that the PPP went back to Parliament.

The Festival of Flowers at Brickdam Cathedral was a creation of different people including a man who had been hauled in last year for questioning for drugs in pastries and who seems to have resumed his life.

The exhibition included live music performances on different instruments. There was something about looking at the positioning of lotus in a purain leaf like how we do it for puja while listening to a young man playing violin, first alone then accompanied by a man on a piano..

There was steel pan music earlier . A woman asked me 'where you from' and I said 'right hey'.. though feeling sad that 'hey' was a place where the newspaper front page or TV news or online news which I saw did not think that it was newsworthy to report on the people who were arranging flowers in a Cathedral, and musicians were playing at no cost to the public and that as one woman said 'it was nice to just sit down a lil bit in a rushed day'. It is not that the other things which are on the front page are not newsworthy, but it is just that when people on click on links to Guyana and want to see headlines about this place it cannot be about drunk drivers and a dysfunctional parliamentary system but also that there are Guyanese who continue to make the place liveable and share their work.


There were people sitting and praying, or just listening to the music and looking around at the church turned Garden.

The young man playing the violin in the flower filled church is not as likely to make the headlines as say as a young man who is found with ganja on his person or who might be killed or kill.


The Internet will not return search results which will show that Guyana yesterday and today had flowers and quiet music for people in Georgetown even as other places had loud discordant quarrels.

We have to fix how we tell our stories, and how we tell all of the stories not just the ones which are bad.

(Alva Solomon shared this link to his pictures and notes from the event )