Thoughts of a minibus traveller

    A foodie Facebook friend shared a recipe for Butternut Squash and Chickpea curry and I bookmarked.  Not sure if I would ever make it as I wondered why would I curry butternut squash which tastes nice "just so' but curious as the recipe invoked 'Thai' curry and the lemon grass and coconut milk mix up. And as more oil being produced in Guyana, I have not seen butternut squash in the market so it was like save and keep. I got one at the oil country prices just around Christmas and but it was still lower than the supermarket so I chopped up and put in the freezer. I went back to the recipe, not sure , and went looking to see if is true that you could curry butternut squash.. and  Google showed a whole set of versions .  I never cooked with lemon grass and I think the lemon grass we use for tea in Guyana might be different from what is used in the pictures.  The recipe asked to 'mince the lemon grass' but the grass did not take cutting. Another chef said to ...

  Image taken from Ego-Eco-Seva Revisted  by Martin Brown on Fairsnape Gay sex "We are human too" one woman said in answering why members of the LGBTIQ+  community should be concerned about the climate crisis and the environment. The Guyana Rainbow Foundation - Guybow- hosted a workshop which was facilitated by Sherlina Nageer. The theme of the workshop  was "Environmentalism and the LGBTIQ+ community"   The assertion that 'we are human too' is that all human beings including LGBTIQ+ humans are affected by climate change and the resulting climate crisis.  The assertion that 'we are human too' is important in country and region which does not value LGBTIQ+ citizens as equally human  as those who are not LGBTIQ+ (except of course for those people who have 'connections' to the power brokers). The workshop also discussed , in the line of 'we are human too' , the responsibilities to protecting the environment and recovering if possible fro...

  Differential Equations  "I was one of those who was taught by her.. but never learned.. I failed Maths twice but she never made me feel stupid".. the woman, also an educator, recalled about Damayanti Kissoon née Persaud who died in December 2022.   Damayanti Kissoon was mother to my brother and me.  Her notes are written in the neat handwriting of so many of her generation who first wrote with fountain pens. No scratches as they 'took their time' to write. The beautiful handwriting, steady, is also on the recipes for fruit cake and oatmeal cookies and the other things she used to bake. Differential equations, Markov chains, motion in a vertical circle, complex numbers, matrix calculations taught over five decades to students first at Bishops' High School, then Berbice High School, St Roses , Queens College and then at home when the Government could not provide a sustainable livelihood to teachers.   The education started at primary school in Kitty, then...