Thoughts of a minibus traveller

  Alarm rings and I hear it and realise that wait wait, I sleep through the night and so I lie down in wonder as night sleep can be interrupted by heat, or dreams which seem to be real or healthy bladder and kidney function.. which has to be attended to but you know you not supposed to jump out of bed immediately..  but is cool and dark - sun come up but it aint shining yet on the bed  so I could lie down and read out the book as you do when there are cool rainy mornings and you don't want to sleep back but you don't need to get up.. and the book is nice.. and sometimes you belly rumbling because your body has this clock but the book and the bed.. little things like lying down in bed on a cool morning and reading a nice book.. which is a gift really as other times place get bright and hot too quick .. and in the yard.. zinnia which come out on 6 December and still there until now.. and this is flower I put down from a woman who hand good with plants.. and three weeks lat...

Far Left: Joshua Tujay Macey: Right Mad Cow, Stilt Walker and flouncers from Victoria Renegades Masquerade  Saturday afternoon, humid. Loud drums, triangle and flute making noise all over the Guyana National Museum - Museum which is usually quiet except for traffic outside. The music is floating around all the old things.. historical things - which relate to Guyana.. the beats and tweets I imagine could be absorbed by the things which are in cases .. things which are 'dead' in a way.. dead history....  Masquerade though is living history..  and so I turn the corner and see the masqueraders.. and the musicians and the people brought together by the Masquerade Association Guyana Inc   for the first Masquerade Day on 29 November, 2025.  A man tells me 'masquerade is for outside, open spaces not inside .. too confining' and it is true.. but something about how this masquerade is weaving .. the Museum 'used to have' an exhibit in one alcove of masquerade but it was...