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This is a video of our garden from  nearly 'ground level.' Have a look and, if it appeals to you; enjoy a few minutes of 'enfoliaged' contemplation.

This is a little video of a canal boat passing by. See what you make of and have a brief interlude, if you would. OWOHROD

T he great Muhammad Ali has been summoned to join the great cosmic time train, as the gods have decreed that his time upon the earth has expired. T hose of us who know of and/or love this inimitable man, boxer, showman, entertainer, artist, poet, and philosopher, will miss him greatly. Those of us who are of a certain age will have grown up with  Muhammad Ali and have watched his boxing matches, him being crowned the king of boxing, declaring himself the most recognisable man on the planet, seen the US government tried to destroy his boxing career and reputation because of his opposition to the Vietnam War, and, most poignantly, witnessed the attacks of Parkinson's Disease on his body, his speech and his demeanour. Y es, the Great Man and civil rights advocate, has, for some decades now, not been in the public's eyes as much as he had been in the past, and this has allowed many of us to begin the process of making the psyc

Being the first or amongst the first to do something such as visiting another country inhabited by people who are ethnically, linguistically and/or culturally different from you is not only a very courageous thing to do, but it can be potentially very dangerous. Most of us will be au fait with the exploits of past explorers, whether it be Columbus 'discovering' the lands of the West Indies, the Spanish Conquistadors invading the Americas and dominating and destroying its native peoples, or Mongol warriors conquering and dominating the peoples of the Steppes of Asia, the Chinese emperors, before and after them, conquering and expanding their empires, or, in more recent times, the British, French, Belgian and Germans scrambling for the lands of Africa and the West Indies. Those invasions were based on explorers desire to accumulate wealth and lands for themselves and their countries of origins, and their invasions were not meant to be friendly or promoting peaceful co-exis

This is a short video of a walk by the Canal. Check it out and enjoy what you will about it.

The tragic death of the gorilla, Harambe, who was shot and killed by Cincinnati Zoo's staff, is one of those extremely poignant events which one tends to replay endlessly in ones mind, hoping for a different outcome. Sadly, however, we are not able to roll-back time and undo what has already been done or do what should have been done. Tragic as it is, Harambe has been called upon to make the ultimate enforced sacrifice, because the Zoo's staff, understandably, could not have known whether he would or would not have killed or seriously injured the innocent 4 year old boy whose misfortune it was to have fallen into the the Gorilla's enclosure. Harambe was seen having the boy in front of him, apparently not harming him. However, he was also seen dragging the boy in what us humans would call reckless fashion, through the water. He was also seen shoving the lad. Nobody can confidently say Harambe would have killed the lad or not killed him; considering he is an animal with who

In this the third part of A Jamaican Childhood, Shaka recalls a journey he and some of his brothers made through their village, to the hills overlooking it, in order to find food. During his childhood the family had to find ways of making ends meet, as it were, and this required the family to find ways of supplementing the regular remittance of money which Shaka's and his siblings father would send to them from England. On way of doing this was for the young men to go into the hills and mountains overlooking the village, to try and find ground provisions from long abandoned plots of land which had been cultivated by peasant farmers, and, probably, even slaves or former slaves. Just as how the mango season was a welcomed source of food, so Shaka knew that the fruits from the fruit trees and the ground provisions would help the family to subsist and eke out a living by combining them with remittance they would later received from Shaka’s father, who emigrated to England when sh