tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41661908810477075082024-03-12T19:21:22.783-04:00Sandals & SunniesMusings on life and literature.Lizellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14732968490869330022noreply@blogger.comBlogger480125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4166190881047707508.post-73457647450955150352021-10-13T05:30:00.041-04:002021-10-13T10:24:22.241-04:00 Oh, baby, it’s a wide world: A Grand Place Book Review by TheWordyPhoenix<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sHLVJUbDnMA/YWY9N0sJULI/AAAAAAAAb7c/-IIyrB1-v7U90MYNC9LH01dF1-vqroStACPcBGAsYHg/s2640/20211012_175600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="--link-color-active: rgb(113, 179, 234) !important; --link-color-hover: rgb(144, 196, 238) !important; --link-color: rgb(117, 182, 234) !important; --visited-color-active: rgb(157, 113, 234) !important; --visited-color-hover: rgb(179, 144, 238) !important; --visited-color: rgb(160, 117, 234) !important; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2640" data-original-width="1980" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sHLVJUbDnMA/YWY9N0sJULI/AAAAAAAAb7c/-IIyrB1-v7U90MYNC9LH01dF1-vqroStACPcBGAsYHg/s16000/20211012_175600.jpg" style="--link-color-active: rgb(113, 179, 234) !important; --link-color-hover: rgb(144, 196, 238) !important; --link-color: rgb(117, 182, 234) !important; --visited-color-active: rgb(157, 113, 234) !important; --visited-color-hover: rgb(179, 144, 238) !important; --visited-color: rgb(160, 117, 234) !important; border-color: rgb(22, 22, 202) !important; filter: saturate(0.9) brightness(0.8);" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sneak peek at my FAVORITE page from this beauty!</span><br /><p></p><p><br />Grenada's intimate relationship with an extended family connection is put onto the map of the literary landscape by Grenadian creators, in the new children’s book 'A Grand Place' <br /><br />Written by Leighan Renaud and illustrated by Elizabeth Lander this short story picture book, set on the island of Grenada, is a story of a young West Indian girl on a grand adventure. The reader is taken on a journey through rhyming words and vivid pictures, as the central character encounters old and new experiences, in the search for a beloved member of the book's cast. There are elements of mystery within it too, that keep the reader turning pages, in order to find out what or who, the young protagonist will encounter before reaching the goal.<br /><br />The story embraces the captivating call to exploration found in youth. It enforces the importance of familial ties on a small island that nurtures the building of bonds through the treasured traditions of village play and family visitations. <br /><br />The author's smooth, rhythmic, use of language is poised to capture the book’s target audience of ages 0-7. All while the illustrations, filled with lush curtains of pastoral grandeur, simultaneously work with the words to enhance the reader experience. Together, they put on display plot, character, and setting design, that are recognizable attributes of Caribbean lifestyle.<br /><br />This story is buzzing with portrayals of Grenada through the use of its location, stylized in watercolor. The audience has to look forward to, on the page as they peruse the book: moments of unsullied landscapes, post-colonial architecture, familiar seasides, and even vendor populated marketplaces, filled with local fruit stands. This vibrant acknowledgment of people and place, birthed by Grenadian’s creatives, works to engage the eyes and mind of any curious reader at home or abroad.<br /><br />It is literature that depicts West Indian life in its authenticity and is an opportunity for diverse young readers to see themselves depicted on the page, from a non-Eurocentric perspective. A fact that remains extremely valuable in a world market where the shelves are, more often than not, populated by much the opposite. <br /><br />A Grand Place is, without a doubt, a fervent read for any literature enthusiast, yearning for a story of island life and the escapades bound to ensue. Filled with vibrant Caribbean colours on every page, it makes itself a pocketable presentation of elements of Grenadian culture. It is an enamoring tale of how big the world can be to a young person, no matter the size of their geographical location. The author manages by the story’s end to balance that longing to keep family close with the wonder of a world yet discovered. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n6zMfiLeFzg/YWboQLv9YzI/AAAAAAAAb8E/P6NPVopGudQ9PkSLXE8bLryPscl83clUwCPcBGAsYHg/s3737/20211013_100946.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="--link-color-active: rgb(113, 179, 234) !important; --link-color-hover: rgb(144, 196, 238) !important; --link-color: rgb(117, 182, 234) !important; --visited-color-active: rgb(157, 113, 234) !important; --visited-color-hover: rgb(179, 144, 238) !important; --visited-color: rgb(160, 117, 234) !important; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3737" data-original-width="2268" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n6zMfiLeFzg/YWboQLv9YzI/AAAAAAAAb8E/P6NPVopGudQ9PkSLXE8bLryPscl83clUwCPcBGAsYHg/s16000/20211013_100946.jpg" style="--link-color-active: rgb(113, 179, 234) !important; --link-color-hover: rgb(144, 196, 238) !important; --link-color: rgb(117, 182, 234) !important; --visited-color-active: rgb(157, 113, 234) !important; --visited-color-hover: rgb(179, 144, 238) !important; --visited-color: rgb(160, 117, 234) !important; border-color: rgb(22, 22, 202) !important; filter: saturate(0.9) brightness(0.8);" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9ze9Y0s3FN8/YWbqQiX-AGI/AAAAAAAAb8Y/gNXnwOkLzqYV8MpL_RWAKhDbvtd_YD8jwCPcBGAsYHg/s2640/20211012_180013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="--link-color-active: rgb(113, 179, 234) !important; --link-color-hover: rgb(144, 196, 238) !important; --link-color: rgb(117, 182, 234) !important; --visited-color-active: rgb(157, 113, 234) !important; --visited-color-hover: rgb(179, 144, 238) !important; --visited-color: rgb(160, 117, 234) !important; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2640" data-original-width="1980" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9ze9Y0s3FN8/YWbqQiX-AGI/AAAAAAAAb8Y/gNXnwOkLzqYV8MpL_RWAKhDbvtd_YD8jwCPcBGAsYHg/s16000/20211012_180013.jpg" style="--link-color-active: rgb(113, 179, 234) !important; --link-color-hover: rgb(144, 196, 238) !important; --link-color: rgb(117, 182, 234) !important; --visited-color-active: rgb(157, 113, 234) !important; --visited-color-hover: rgb(179, 144, 238) !important; --visited-color: rgb(160, 117, 234) !important; border-color: rgb(22, 22, 202) !important; filter: saturate(0.9) brightness(0.8);" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>------- <br /></p><p>Auntie of many that I am, I'm so excited about this new jem to add to the libraries of the young ones that I care about. Not to mention the beautiful teaching tool this will be!</p><p>If you are thinking about purchasing this gorgeous book <a href="https://www.formybooks.com/product-page/a-grand-place-pre-order" style="--link-color-active: rgb(113, 179, 234) !important; --link-color-hover: rgb(144, 196, 238) !important; --link-color: rgb(117, 182, 234) !important; --visited-color-active: rgb(157, 113, 234) !important; --visited-color-hover: rgb(179, 144, 238) !important; --visited-color: rgb(160, 117, 234) !important;" target="_blank">you can pre-order A Grand Place here.</a>Get a head start if you're already thinking about want to gift this beauty this holiday season, as we face this pending world wide shortage of goods. Capitalize on the link above! Pre-orders to a great job of telling publishers that there is an interest in the author's work so if you want to make the weight of your dollar count? Clickity click!</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: right;">Peace. Love. Literature.<br /></p>Lizellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14732968490869330022noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4166190881047707508.post-89420026035212599612021-09-13T12:31:00.001-04:002021-09-13T12:31:39.653-04:00NYFW 2021: Return of the waist coat?!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nggz5h9keXc/YT98Ig_z72I/AAAAAAAAa_o/42Vv-0uAMbUGTl6jQr3TDwtVZEidj9dmQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2000/Cool%2BGrey%2Band%2BBrown%2BClean%2BGrid%2BFashion%2BMoodboard%2BPhoto%2BCollage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="--link-color-active: rgb(113, 179, 234) !important; --link-color-hover: rgb(144, 196, 238) !important; --link-color: rgb(117, 182, 234) !important; --visited-color-active: rgb(157, 113, 234) !important; --visited-color-hover: rgb(179, 144, 238) !important; --visited-color: rgb(160, 117, 234) !important; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="2000" height="256" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nggz5h9keXc/YT98Ig_z72I/AAAAAAAAa_o/42Vv-0uAMbUGTl6jQr3TDwtVZEidj9dmQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Cool%2BGrey%2Band%2BBrown%2BClean%2BGrid%2BFashion%2BMoodboard%2BPhoto%2BCollage.jpg" style="--link-color-active: rgb(113, 179, 234) !important; --link-color-hover: rgb(144, 196, 238) !important; --link-color: rgb(117, 182, 234) !important; --visited-color-active: rgb(157, 113, 234) !important; --visited-color-hover: rgb(179, 144, 238) !important; --visited-color: rgb(160, 117, 234) !important; border-color: rgb(22, 22, 202) !important; filter: saturate(0.9) brightness(0.8);" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>Hi everyone,</p><p>If you're keeping your eye on Fall Fashion week like I am i'm sure you've seen some trends that are eye catchibng.</p><p>My top three NYFW 2021 trends are as follows:</p><p>The west coat,</p><p>Super bright colours!</p><p>Leather or it's look alike</p><p>I cant wait to see these trends start showing up in retail stores. I am beside myself about being able to adorn waist coats again while also being able to easily find them!</p><p>What trends from the runway are catching your eye?<br /></p>Lizellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14732968490869330022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4166190881047707508.post-1038426248456209212021-05-16T21:25:00.000-04:002021-05-16T21:25:00.646-04:00Well that escalated quickly <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HzHxrRgTE2Y/YKHFjDHG6cI/AAAAAAAAZP0/2p679rU0iWIHOYgBAYyFOdMz-WUu15w-ACPcBGAsYHg/s2640/20210228_174910.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="--link-color-active: rgb(113, 179, 234) !important; --link-color-hover: rgb(144, 196, 238) !important; --link-color: rgb(117, 182, 234) !important; --visited-color-active: rgb(157, 113, 234) !important; --visited-color-hover: rgb(179, 144, 238) !important; --visited-color: rgb(160, 117, 234) !important; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2640" data-original-width="1980" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HzHxrRgTE2Y/YKHFjDHG6cI/AAAAAAAAZP0/2p679rU0iWIHOYgBAYyFOdMz-WUu15w-ACPcBGAsYHg/s16000/20210228_174910.jpg" style="--link-color-active: rgb(113, 179, 234) !important; --link-color-hover: rgb(144, 196, 238) !important; --link-color: rgb(117, 182, 234) !important; --visited-color-active: rgb(157, 113, 234) !important; --visited-color-hover: rgb(179, 144, 238) !important; --visited-color: rgb(160, 117, 234) !important; border-color: rgb(22, 22, 202) !important; filter: saturate(0.9) brightness(0.8);" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Hey, <br /></p><p>Yeah, I know, it's been a long time but uh, the word kind of turned upside down for a year there. I'm making my way back. Watch this space. </p><p> <br /></p>Lizellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14732968490869330022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4166190881047707508.post-24626733755677577912020-11-13T20:58:00.000-04:002020-11-13T20:58:02.514-04:00HELLO PHILLY! : Signs of Love and Rocky Balboa<br />
So...turns out you can go to Philadelphia from NYC for $12 buck!<br />
And if you book your trip on World Travel Day, you can go via the comfort and eas of Amtrack for $30<br />
Ladies and gentlemen, I ask you, who could pass that up?<br />
<i>Not Meeee! </i><br />
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In my ever chase for art around the world I also thought it would be wonderful to see the Statue of Rocky Balboa the city has proudly standing near their museum. I wanted to venture into the art museum too but alas there was a 25 dollar cover charge that day and I am a broke international student far from home. Never the less, the statue is a gorgeous and detailed piece!<br />
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"It's not about how hard you can hit. It's about hard you can get hit and keep moving forward."<br />
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Did I ever need to be reminded of that just then...this semester of grad school is kicking my ass and it hurts y'all...<br />
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The last stop was The Victor's Bar, used in the film as Rocky's restaurant. I was not prepared for how this place blew my mind. The food was not only good but is was served by waiters and waitresses all classically trained as OPERA SINGERS! That night I heard Opera in Filipino, German, Swiss and French just to name a few.<br />
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They also invited us to come in an hour early and see their music lounge which is one of the most beautiful rooms upstairs the restaurant. It's got it's own bar, a private bar tender, candle lighting, photographs of the staff with the crew of Rocky and gorgeous Victorian style interior design.<br />
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I was smitten! Yes, this post was per-scheduled. I thought I'd share it with you as it happened exactly a month before the world went into lock down.</p><p>Also, boy oh boy has this editor changed...forgive me while I figure this out?</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: right;">Peace. Love. Stay well friends!<br /></p>Lizellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14732968490869330022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4166190881047707508.post-5005315976651171112020-02-23T09:46:00.000-04:002020-03-14T14:20:25.392-04:00A January Adventure :: Brunching and Adulting<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I had the joy of going to Brunch with my favorite Grenadian illustrator this January. I was ever nervous what with not knowing this country as I'd like but it was easy enough to find the location. Something so simple turned out to be so lovely. Just a few Grenadians meeting up a' foreign. We shared some hot beverages and a little treat and talked about how much our country has changed for the better and for the worse in our life time.<br />
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It warmed my heart so deeply.<br />
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Being far from home only cements for me the civic responsibility thrust into the hands of so many of us. This is a unique thing when you are a creative. You see maybe the way your impact will not be immediately recognized like the lawyer, the doctor or the politician. Maybe people will look at you and say,<i> ah, but there is so much life without you</i>.<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> As though art has never healed. As though art has never defended or accused. As though art has never lead.</span><br />
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It was a soul fueling conversation with these ladies at the lovely little shop we brunched at and I'm grateful for their time and encouraging words. I truly understand now the phrase women support women in a way that it's never been so clear to me. I understand it more and more as I grow and achieve and am blessed with the mentor-ship of successful women who have struggled and won before me.<br />
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Here's to more women supporting women in 2020!<br />
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Peace. Love. Support.</div>
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So I saw Little Women the 2019 adaptation with these wonderful, powerful, beautiful ladies recently! I
was so teary eyed so much of the time too because this adaptation focuses
on Jo's narrative i thought very well and her story means SO MUCH to me
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Little Women
serves as a reminder that every woman's idea of a fulfilled future can
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reminds us that yes, you can like dresses or romping, exploring the
bushes with your platonic male friends or sewing fine silks into
ballroom dresses. You can be a stay at home mom in a sweet cottage with
your husband or want to tour Europe and live a life of worldly artistic
appreciation or a life as a woman chasing her professional passions or
all of the above. Why judge a woman for wanting any of these choices is
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When I read the book of course I felt deeply connected with Jo. The march sister who wanted to climb trees, tour Europe for it's ascetic qualities as fuel, be a writer and who eventually moves to New York City in this crazy move to do just this. As I grow older, watching this adaptation it was interesting to see how my friends felt connected to different March sisters and how even I, appreciated the other March sisters in an entirely different way.</div>
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This adaptation brings a great contemporary lens the the cause and effect of living as a woman in a world that does not respect womanhood as equally valuable. A world that places constraints on what a woman should look like and how she should spend her life. What she should be passionate about and what should make her whole. A world that policies women's bodies and then tells them to work as everyone else works even knowing that they have set up systematic constraints that make this not impossible but incredibly unequal...</div>
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My favorite part about this rendition of Jo March is that she yells in the face of the audience the secret pain of many modern women. It is a pain of responsibility. To know that you deserve more and to understand that your journey towards more is likely to be a lonely trudge. To understand that the world sees a woman's loneliness as a weakness or as her punishment for wanting more. The successful woman is not supposed to admit to being lonely. She is supposed to be comforted by her success. As if loneliness is not a human emotion. She is expected to be superhuman to be given the respect of humanity. Again here is the tipping of the scales towards an inequality we have not yet managed to fix or even look holistically in the face without blushing. </div>
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I love that the story of Little Women reminds us that every
story, every secret dream and dared for hope informs us that there is
no one right way to be a woman. There is just the bittersweet beauty of
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you're really really blessed? Maybe you'll get to do it with women who
will support your struggle and your dreams and not judge you for not
'doing it right' Women who know too there isn't necessarily a right
way...just A WAY at the end of it all to be a woman and that way is
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I'll tell you something else, I cannot wait to see what happens when woman dares to take on the task of betraying Jo through an inter-sectional feminist lens. What of a multiracial Jo? Jo as a person of colour? A non-binary Josaphine March? What will Jo of the gen Z look like? Now there is a question...there, is a thought.<br />
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So I haven't done much in the way of yearly goals on here yet. I thought I'd start with one first and not put to much pressure on myself as I continue my MFA. This year I will be attempting to have 12 adventures in 2020. Once I get that out of the way, as I suspect I will, I am going to up this goal to 20 because I mean, come on, 20 in 2020! Who could resist?<br />
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If you're wondering what exactly they are the truth is I do not know...yet. I'm embracing the unknown this year in this way.I'm letting myself <span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">do</span> more than <span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">plan </span>Truly <i>crazy</i> for me but hey, onward ever right? <br />
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I will be cataloging them here.<br />
Watch this space.<br />
The first one will be posted soon<br />
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Happy New Year y'all!</div>
Lizellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14732968490869330022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4166190881047707508.post-49613284078059861742019-12-31T10:26:00.000-04:002020-04-13T11:08:48.357-04:00Christmas in NYC 2019<br />
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So what does Christmas in New York City look like exactly?<br />
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Well, when you're away from home, largely dependent when you're not used to so being, submerged in a completely different culture than your own, it looks like excitement and loneliness wrestling for top rank.<br />
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It means classmates and people asking you "So what do you miss about
Christmas at home?" and you opening your mouth to tell them but not
being able to put it to words in a way they could relate to just then.
Understanding in that moment as you feel the absence that Christmas at
home is sensational. It is the smell of cakes in homes and shops. It is
people in the market desperately searching for sorrel. It is stores all
lit up and more people in the city than usual, speeding along, looking
and looking and planning for feasts with friends and family. It is eggs
gone scares and upped in price It is stepping into a bus and sighing as
you exclaim 'prang already!?" but singing along before you know it. It
is Christmas music over the radio system of your favorite grocery store.<br />
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It looks like sitting back and realizing that you are an adult who has spent the last decade establishing traditions and happy habits that are now across the ocean. It means missing watching Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer or Home Alone for the gazillionth time with your mom as you eat lunch at dinner time because you did more laughing than cooking in the kitchen that day.<br />
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It means missing your big brother's laughter as he comes barreling down the steps of your home with sweet cakes, yelling Merry Christmas over excitedly.<br />
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It means not running into friends you haven't seen all year, on the streets or more importantly, in the grocery store, bonding over the exorbitant prices of turkey hams.<br />
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It means missing your dog and your cactus plant and your miniature Christmas tree and the bedding, pillows and lights you got yourself, with money you worked for that you put up just once a year to decorate your room. Decorations that you'd been so proud of putting together in a space that is yours.<br />
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And it means doing this alone, in the dark. Not telling anyone because you understand that you also have religious affiliation with this holiday and you're in a country where they'd rather you keep your beliefs to yourself thank you very much.<br />
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It also means your friends will go out with you on eve of eve and see the city of New York fantastically alight.<br />
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It means eggnog for the first time.<br />
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It means red, green and Christmas lights used and appreciated in a new way.<br />
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It means Christmas dinner with an aunt you spent a large part of your teen years missing. Laughing with her and eating cranberry sauce with turkey.<br />
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It means the extra ordinary kindness of strangers. Like a sweet new friend buying you a Rudolph plushie to keep you company while you miss your mom. Your friend giving you a journal to remind you that this too is part of your story and you've got to write it down. Live it in the moment and appreciate the moment because this moment too will end.<br />
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It means being homesick for your best friends and telling them and feeling connected to them even from far away because the solid true friendships you built cannot be shaken by space. It means Caribbean new friends giving you warm bottie socks because they thought of you and how you would struggle through your first Winter because they know that struggle well. It means your Puerto Rican friend sharing his cultural, home made drink with you after telling you about it for years! It means...so much.<br />
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It is a melancholia...knowing that no backwards step will ever fill this spacing where something is newly missing and no forward step will ever compare. It is understanding and accepting that they don't have to do that that they don't need the weight of that responsibility. It is coming to grips with the fact that change is okay even though it is bitter and sweet both.<br />
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Christmas, away from home, has the ability to make you cherish your intangible national treasures.<br />
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Peace. Love. Appreciations. </div>
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So what have I been up to let me tell you!<br />
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Writing and writing and writing.<br />
Getting ready to self publish.<br />
Getting into grad school.<br />
Realizing that I have no way to make that dream happen and having to defer.<br />
Loosing the ability to defer and having to make big decisions about my future, my job, moving, being a student again but this time in a foreign country while low visioned.<br />
Doubting E V E R Y T H I N G<br />
Waiting on God.<br />
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So....I got into Grad school y'all! I am about to start the degree of my dreams in a matter of days! I...cannot tell you what I am thinking. I just keep chasing my dreams, ending up in bigger and scarier situations than the last.<br />
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Is this the summary of life??<br />
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I have been packing and praying and trying to stay calm and failing and filling out form after form. I've sought scholarships and loans and done so much searching and asking question after question that just keeps leading me to dead ends.<br />
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I have come face to face with people in the position to help and have been forced to come to terms with the reality that they will not because "I just don't believe in you." Yeah, that sucks to hear doesn't it? It sucks to live too.<br />
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Now don't get me wrong, I have a score of wonderful people who believe in me. So many people who have kept me feeling empowered. There are people in my life who have done all they can to help me take a step forward and I wish there was a bigger, weightier word than 'Thankful' and 'grateful' to express to them how I feel...<br />
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You see in this life it's already hard enough to get someone to believe in your ability. It is even more so when you HAVE a disability. This is why it has taken me so long to write about this...because it's hard to go here. It's hard to have this conversation about what a disability is, what an INVISIBLE disability is, why disability is not a bad word. Why because you know me and you've seen me adapt to get by successfully in some case or another, that does not disqualify me from that term and why, that term does not belittle me or box me into being a person who is not able to succeed. I want you to understand how saying to a person "Yeah but you are not reeeeally disabled though" says more about <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">what you think about people who have disabilities and their ability to achieve and live normal, happy, lives than it does about me or that word.</span><br />
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I know we've come far but people get very defensive with words like those. As if you are belittling someone else's struggle when you imply that you too have an uneven footing to get past. That is a whole different discussion however, I am not hear to fight over disability, what it looks like, what you think it <i>should </i>look like to gain your <i>seal of approval</i>.<br />
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I am here to say that I got into <i>grad schoo</i>l.<br />
This legally blind girl from the Caribbean who has had over 10 cancer cell removal surgeries.<br />
Who is the first of her family to get this far.<br />
This girl who learned to read at nine years old because she couldn't see the blackboard or the books.<br />
This girl, who survived it, you don't need to know what <i>it</i> is.<br />
This girl someone took a chance on and let into primary school. <br />
This girl who squinted at too small printed in a primary school exit exams and passed it independently on her first go.<br />
This girl who was told by her then secondary school principal that she would never amount to anything less than a month before graduation.<br />
This girl who got an Associated Degree in humanities anyway. <br />
This girl who even after being told by that same principal who ended up being her first boss, that he would "Never allow her to teacher" taught for thirteen years, reading and literature and self worth to every student she met.<br />
This girl who saved every dime and financed her self through university and finished with a Bachelors in English and Literature with Education.<br />
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This writer girl turned woman. This one, who wrote these words you are reading and has wrote words you've read before. Who has loved and mentored and fought to make her country better with both her hands and still been told <i>I just don't believe in you</i>. when it came to taking the next bold step by every bank and credit union in the country she loves, when it came time to take the next step.<br />
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This girl is going to get a Masters Degree in Creative Writing <i>anyway</i>...somehow. Scared and all.<br />
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So for the next two years of my life I can honestly tell you I have no idea what is in store and I, a type A, engram one, stubborn Aries <i>hate</i> the unknown. When you're visually impaired it's like living in a pool of unknown around the clock already for goodness sake. Your very foot step is a step into the unknown because is that a step or is that a shadow and will I be safe and <i>how</i> and-<br />
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Watch this space because this girl? This girl is going to take another crazy chance on herself.<br />
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Will you route for me? I hope you'll route for me friend. I'll be honest, for as much as I just said, there are NO grantees. I <i>could </i>fail. I have only saved enough money for the first semester of this big crazy dream and...I could fail pretty bad. But I'm getting on a plane, I'm leaving everything I know and love behind anyway and I'm going to chase my dreams like my life depends on it because I'll be honest, it kind of does.<br />
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Want to help?DM my facebook page thewordyphoenix and lets talk about it!<br />
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Peace. Love. Let's Go <i>get'em!</i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">This post was written in July 2019 </span></i></div>
<br />Lizellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14732968490869330022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4166190881047707508.post-22936830596623543792019-11-17T16:00:00.000-04:002019-11-26T13:27:47.432-04:00Grenada Chocolate Festival 2019 | Brunch At the Tower & The Magic of Old Houses <br />
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I had the pleasure of attending Brunch at The Tower as well as be part of a Garden tour there during this year's Grenada Chocolate Festival; 2019. I don't know about you but for me being in extremely old houses has an air of magic. There is a mysticism in the reality that generations of people walked and worked these halls. Especially, since this house has a colonial past. There is history here, in every brick that was carried over on slave ship, then made part of this house's foundation. There is life energy in every flower planted by hands willing and unwilling both.<br />
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The Tower Brunch grows a plant seen all about Grenada called Butterfly Pea Flower. I admittedly, had never heard of it before attending the brunch. I am so glad that changed! Of course I looked it up and what did I find? Small island beauty as it is the Butterfly Pea Flower is famous and has been used in many a drink due to it's vibrant blue coloring!<br />
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The Butterfly Pea Flower, when used for tea releases a richly hued dye that gives The Tower's signature blue ice tea it's mystique. It's an experience worth having to be handed a brightly brewed blue ice tea . I suggest strongly that you have a visit to The Tower and request it!<br />
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Brunch was an island mix of locally grown, organically tended, unique dishes. From warm dark chocolate doused savory dishes to juicy, fun shaped fruit salad that lavished your tongue in sweet fruit flavor, the moment you bit down.<br />
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And of course, tea, <i>always</i> tea! We are not, regardless of Columbus's fabricated ledgers, savages after all. Har har, see what did there?<br />
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Did the awe of this property stop there? No dear friends, it was just beginning! Onward, to the garden tour!! <br />
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The garden is alive and is felt all over the property, not just in it's designated section. It grows, extending leaves, branches, hands of praise to the sky. It embraces pillars and stairs, benches and pathways. You cannot escape it in a way that you do not want to do.<br />
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I have come to understand that, at least in the case of my people, when we say that we are islanders people do not hear it all. They do not hear that we feel it. That we are saying we are part of this fertile soil, that we fill ourselves on this sweet, sacred Caribbean air. That we grow food with our hands and bent backs and knees. That we are kissed by freedom on the breeze.<br />
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Maybe they would understand better if they took a slow stroll through a l<a href="https://www.grenadachocolatefest.com/contact/">iving, breathing garden too...</a><br />
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Or maybe they still wouldn't understand. Maybe there is no understand
the bones of a culture...there is experiencing though that I know for
sure, in smiles, silence, skips and laughter like these...<br />
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I hope you get to feel that too some day. Maybe even at the next <a href="https://www.grenadachocolatefest.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/2020-chocolate-fest-schedule-.pdf">Grenada Chocolate Festival?!</a><br />
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Thank you to The Grenada Chocolate Festival for having me for yet another year! It was my extraordinary pleasure to be there and to be provided and opportunity to share these moments of magic with you dear reader. For date of the next <a href="https://www.grenadachocolatefest.com/">Grenada Chocolate Festival 2020 click here!</a><br />
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<i>Do you think old houses have a life of their own?</i><br />
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Peace. Love. Brunch!!<br />
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Lizellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14732968490869330022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4166190881047707508.post-12304008005113057242019-07-07T20:29:00.000-04:002019-07-07T13:28:55.728-04:00Cocoa Tea and Chocolate Talks at the House of Chocolate Grenada || Grenada Chocolate Fest2019<div dir="auto">
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and Chocolate Talks at the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/houseofchocolategrenada/">House of Chocolate Grenada.</a> On Wednesday 5th May,
2019. I know you're probably thinking, did she say a <i>TALK</i>? That can't be
one of the fun ones! Well, jokes on you because I'm an academic so of course this qualifies as my nerdy idea of fun! Also there was COCOA TEA, which I happen to love so much I have recently
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Now,
as some of you may already know, cocoa tea is a drink made of dried
concentrated cocoa, brought to a boil. Then, like most teas, it sees the
addition of milk and sugar as according to preference. On my island of Grenada we grow organic, ethically made cocoa that is of exemplary quality. Go ahead, ask about us.</div>
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Cocoa
tea is usually served hot. As it is made of the
raw ingredient used as the base for all chocolate, it is rich, full
bodied and if dried well in the processing part of the product, it is
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It
is a drink I am extremely passionate about. As a child I was never a
milk drinker really and while many city house hold children seemed to have grown up
drinking milk, my countryside home really drank cocoa tea
the majority of times. It
is a tradition for my family that spans generations, both paternally
and maternally. One of those things that never seemed odd until I
discussed it with friends and found out that for them it was more treat
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On our
island Grenada it is made in a variety of ways, most commonly with the addition
of cinnamon and bay-leaf during the boiling stage. As I lived that wonderful privilege of country
life, I grew up picking a bay leaf (locally also called bounden leaf) off a
branch, left to dry on our kitchen counter. I would pop it into a boiling pot
of melting cocoa and watch the steam swirling up from that fragrant depth of soon to be liquid chocolate.</div>
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I
wish I could describe for you the smell of a bay-leaf hitting that
boiling hot, dark, swirling vat of cocoa. How it permeates...not just
every room of a house with the smell of roasting cocoa bean but the
general surrounding environment with it.</div>
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many Sunday mornings I woke up by that smell, as my mother stood at our
stove. Waking the house and my appetite with the stir of that pot of
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At
the Grenada Chocolate Festival 2019, Cocoa Tea and Chocolate Talks, we
were lead into discussion by Belgian professional chocolate taster: <a href="http://www.lomejordelchocolate.com/">Le Cameleon Chocolate </a></div>
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I
was enraptured. Since cocoa tea means so much to my family it was
enthralling to find out that the Aztec made chocolate, oven roasting
their beans and adding a smoky, woody taste to their chocolate not just
for flavour but as a way to pay spiritual homage to their ancestors
through the smoke ascension. </div>
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Here,
at home in Grenada, we do a lot of stove top roasting of our cocoa
beans. Maybe because with time it has seemed simply easier and time effective? Our
chocolate taster reminded us of the importance of knowing the <i>objective</i>
of chocolate tasting, <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">is it for traditional notes of wood and smoke or
modern notes of smoothness and spice? <i>Notice where the emphasis lay on
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the House of Chocolate gave us an exclusive look at how they make their
cocoa tea in house and we got to tasting. We also had the opportunity to
taste some rough ground chocolate from Tabasco Mexico, examining the story
in the flavour of a treat typically used to make drinks. We noticed how it is 70
percent sugar and as a result, is more prone to melt quickly. How its
roughness, mildly woody and smoky notes, play on your tongue a little
before it is gone. We could then compare and contrast this with how our many grades of Grenadian chocolate tastes smoother,
darker and leaves a burst of flavour long after it is gone...We got to taste this not just in tea but in House of Chocolate Grenada's jam filled bon bons!</div>
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I
cant wait to have a dark roast, vegan styled cup of cocoa tea someday.
Honestly with all that sharing of cultural similarities even in the face
of difference, it's made me want to put Mexico on my list of places to
visit for the first time in my life because <i>what else do we do
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How marvellous it was to taste and discuss the existence and relevance of
cultural, historical tastes, verses modern taste and trends.<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> How often we forget that
food carries in it not just tradition but the stories of a people, long
after are gone</span>. It makes me wonder what other stories meals have been
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Peace. Love. Cocoa Tea!<br />
For more on the <a href="https://www.grenadachocolatefest.com/">Grenada Chocolate Festival 2020 click here!</a> </div>
Lizellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14732968490869330022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4166190881047707508.post-76814507844505354742019-02-15T20:14:00.000-04:002019-03-03T20:21:56.140-04:00The Reader by Traci Chee :: Book Review
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is a fun fantasy tale set in a time when reading is a long forgotten
skill surrounded by magic and mystery. <br /><br />The plot is rife with the
importance of literacy and forces us to look at life without literature
and without stories having been accessibly recorded or immortalized.<br /><br />This
book reminds us that there is a magic in stories, the ones we live, the
ones we make up, both. The author reminds us that the preservation of
these stories has always been important and in a way is its own kind of
magic.<br /><br />The saying ‘Art imitates life’ comes to mind
when I think of this story. The main character becomes absolutely
smitten with the notion of reading as she learns it. In her absence of
the skill as a reader we can also feel her pain and helplessness of
living in a world without a tangible sense of direction, the reliability
and tested means of understood information books provide us.
Something, I think we all take for granted.<br /><br />Consider it, without books, both fiction and none fiction whose story do you trust?<br /><br />I
did expect it to remind me of the importance, the value and power of
words, books, stories and there the author didn’t fail me.</span></span>Lizellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14732968490869330022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4166190881047707508.post-3964352917940710992019-01-17T03:00:00.000-04:002019-01-17T16:09:40.514-04:00Sip and Paint Grenada Project Pet!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On December 23, 2018, I had the pleasure of attending the last <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sipandpaintgrenada/">Sip and Paint Grenada Project Pet event</a> of the year 2018. Jurnee, a private concierge and travel agency that creates a tailor-made travel experience just for your visiting needs, organized this event. It was interesting to note, that it was the first of its kind here in Grenada. How could I not be excited to be a part of this? Humanitarianism, encouragement to lessen individual carbon footprints and fur babies being appreciated through the vehicle of art? I was here for it!<br />
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Briana R.Thorne, the founder, told me of the event and the company’s vision not just to service its customers but to give back. Jurnee donates to our Grenadian economy in a way that helps to build a more sustainable earth at large. How do they achieve it? They do it by encouraging the use of recyclable canvas bags. Jurnee takes it further as donations from this Sip and Paint Project Pet event are given to the local Services for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (GSPCA) which is an action that can literally help save the lives of animals in need. All of which is done while still managing to touch the hearts of pet owners with their individual creation of pet portraits, painted under the tutelage of a professional artist.<br />
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It was honestly a bit nerve wrecking. You see, as an Islander, I am not so much afraid of the boat as so much as I am of drowning. I am usually fine with boats and I think drowning is a perfectly logical thing to be afraid of to be fair. The trip via speedboat to the venue proved nothing to be afraid of thankfully. The luxurious and rustic Oasis floating bar was only a three-minute speedboat ride at most, over clear clean Caribbean Sea water.<br />
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It is an amazing, heart grasping privilege to be able to see my island of Grenada from this vantage point; as an offshore eye looking in on life. The Sip and Paint Grenada event had not even started yet and I was already deeply moved and calmed by it all.<br />
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We set to painting soon after arrival with the artist Nahshon. He led us in a welcome and a placating speech that reminded us of the importance of self-satisfaction, as we set out to create a piece of art that brought us joy. This paired with his reassurance that he would be there with us every step of the way to make sure we did not completely fail at beauty (my worry not his exact words) and we were good to go.<br />
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As music softly lapped over my senses like the ocean waves caressing the dock outside, I felt my shoulders loosen and relax. Soft cool breeze and my own artwork graphed across a canvas bag was pure bliss. I would use it, for it would help animals in need and our world at large. Despite the challenges and sense of inferiority as other first time painters did a fantastic job, this event gave me a sense of resounding serenity.<br />
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At sunset, we stepped outside into the open air to take photos of our progress. My canvas bag doesn’t have my dog on it. He passed away recently but he helped me to see the world in a much happier way. I couldn’t bear the thought of carrying a photo of him around with me as we had him for so many years and I felt it would make me sad instead of happy. He brought me joy though; a long time ago I lost a pet to painful external circumstances and had not been able to look at pets of my own the same way for a very long time until he came along. Honestly, I ignored that dog Bobbie for an extensive time as a result of that trauma but he was resilient. He met me on my way home every night and he constantly threw himself at my feet for tummy rubs. I ignored him for years, leaving his loving to other family members but he never gave up on me. By the time he died, he completely won me over and I mean it when I tell you it took years.<br />
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It was because of my dog Bobbie that I could make peace with the notion of loving pets again. Now we have a cat that I opened my heart to and it is her I have painted on my canvas bag. Her with hearts in her eyes for the love I now let myself feel, for pets that have and will continue to come and go. Now, as I do my part to reduce my carbon footprint, small as it may be, I can remember and appreciate the way a pet can help and heal a person in a long-lasting way, whether you want them to or not.<br />
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Thank you to Sip and Paint Grenada and Jurnee for this uniquely personal experience, that helped me create and helps my nation through the vehicle of art. The experience and the product were beautiful in a way I will take with me for a long time. I hope you too can have a gratifying experience through a tailor-made adventure in the coming 2019.</div>
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<b>Motivation</b>: Give me all he encouraging sayings in appealing fonts this is the number one ask because I want all the positive vibe as I chase and catch my goals.<br />
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<b>Horizontal Layout</b>: I write across the page sooooo I like my planner to present that way visually.<br />
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<b>Colour</b>: I associate colour with moods. Pink stationery for some reason makes me extremely uncomfortable, the softer and more pastel the worse. I need to have colours that make me feel empowered like yellow, orange, red, blue. No green, lavender or pink. I know it's strange but that's just the state of things in my brain.<br />
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Vlogging in the street and pissing of native New Yorkers no doubt</div>
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There is so much art in Central Park. Vending is happening everywhere in a remarkable burst of colour and creativity. We stopped at this lady's reditions of Disney Princess's as Vogue Magazine covers.<br />
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It was a hot day, sweltering in fact but we explored and laughed and took so many pictures and stopped traffic with our bold adventuring. Possibly almost got hit by traffic too. We barely made a dent in Central Park. I think I should like to see it in the fall someday...<br />
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This is my New Yorker friend Joshua who went with me to The MET and took pictures with me and watched me be extra as ever with little judgement. Check out his photography page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jmcphotographsny/">HERE</a></div>
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Visiting The Met has always been one of those things on my bucket list i had written in invisible ink. I kind of put it on there and forgot about it, contenting myself with dreams because sometimes it feels easier that way...sometimes.<br />
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Somehow though...I have been able to walk across a bridge that connects dreams and reality like that tale of the lovers that unite once a year; the cowhearder and the weaver girl, Zhinu and Niulang.<br />
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I have taken to telling my local friends when I'm off on an adventure. Friends local to the area I am visiting at the time, I mean. My mind has a way of convincing me that I am about to die at every given second. So, to off set that thought I let those wonderful people know that I'm about to do something that I think is crazy.<br />
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This time however, I just so happened that I had a friend in the area I was trying to get to so it became a safer, meet me at via this train mission.<br />
It was scary but not very and I learned something again that day. The one train that I hated most, I am slowly coming to love. As I sat in it, alone, watching very few people with me even though it was rush hour I mused over how we can delay a beautiful thing.<br />
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I had forgotten the view I got from that train. Above the city instead of beneath it. Closer to the sky...the sun, the clouds. Over seer in the silence. It is some how quieter...even though it is more dangerous. Maybe that's why they do it, the thrill seekers. Maybe there is a scares peace in a moment charged with a pending end.<br />
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Walking the Eastside of New York was an experience in itself, strolling down streets prominently mentioned in movies. I understood why they were mentioned in the movies and I must admit it wasn't the happiest realisation. Still, it was an interesting feeling taking each step down those streets.<br />
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Then there we were The Metropolitan Museum of Art where tucked away were shards of my heart I had not become intimately acquainted with yet. Some shards created by hands of a generation long long gone. Hands that never mine but knew me...but created parts of myself anyway.<br />
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I am absolutely infatuated with all of Vincent Van Goth's work. I remember the very moment I fell down the rabbit hole completely in love with it too. I was in art class, our teacher handed me this book of his sketches. So very man sketches....He is so well known for his paintings and tortured life.<br />
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As quite an artist who favours the sketch myself i poured over that book. I always felt so inferior in my fine arts class. Why was I there? Everyone in my class was way better than I at the fine art portion of things. I'm a writer at heart and I much preferred illustration. Fine art always made me feel acquainted and like a fraud.<br />
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I didn't understand so much about myself then, I had no formal training and didn't even understand the many many many layers of art. Fine art might not have been the best place to start really...but I don't regret the training. It was exploration and I had the honour of being taught by extremely talented professors.<br />
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So seeing Van Goth's progression and his unique view on the world from black and white the vibrant colour changed my life and touched my heart. Well, that was the beginning of my love affair with everything Van Goth, I only fell deeper when I learned about the painter himself, his career, what set him so far apart from his pairs in his time. The dark, winding mind field he ran down that his painting allowed him to come up for air in.<br />
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Did you know there is a matching portrait to this ever famous portrait? It is dark, shadow filled, broody and haunting. It lacks lighter tones so much that it barely shows up in a picture. Oh, Vincent Van Goth, every my favourite of the late greats, your mind a maze you sought and found colour in the midst of the darkness and when you could not find it you created it. New star paths and new colours build in the remembrance, deconstruction and construction of joy.<br />
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I'm not even being extra when I tell you I connect with his work on a spiritual level. I remember when Doctor Who did an episode when they visited it and so many facets of my own life came together in that episode. I honestly cried like baby and that story, fictional as it is remains my favourite to this day. I could have cried standing in front of his portraits that day at the MET too....but art is supposed to move you so, I have no shame.<br />
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I also say Monet's and so many more artists at the MET i promise! I myself have always felt like the Van Goth painting amongst Monets on the art wall of my friends...His work is not my cup of tea but I deeply respect his gentle and loving brush strokes and he dissolves into a siren love of the pastoral.<br />
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My brief few hours at The MET was more fantastic than I could put to words. The staff there were so helpful and quite funny in that classic New York way I love I suppose. One of the workers mentioned that she only met two people with pink hair and that I was gorgeous and wore it well. I was tickled.<br />
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I hear the Museum of Modern Art is dope, I think I'll be heading there too next.<br />
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Lizellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14732968490869330022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4166190881047707508.post-24659344880167164272018-11-22T20:06:00.001-04:002018-11-22T20:06:22.417-04:00That Time I Went to The Stardust Diner<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Stardust Diner serves delicious food while all the waitresses and waiters sing show tunes and popular Broadway songs. I was so here for it. It was a beautiful day in the city when we set out for brunch but ended up going to so many fun places not on the schedule!<br />
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This day started so differently, we had high hopes of dressing up 'all fancy like' and going to a right proper brunch. When we go to the spot it was loud, crowded and I suddenly remembered I was old slash past my having to yell over the music for you to hear me over a meal phase of my life.<br />
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I had heard of the Stardust Diner admittedly from Glee. I honestly couldn't believe it was a real place when i saw it on the show and when that was confirmed i harboured a little heart dream to visit it someday.<br />
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Thank God for friends who are down for anything! We didn't end up dressing all fancy like but we did admire the ladies who walked by us and did. We did instead decide to randomly jump on a train into the city and check out the Star dust Diner. It was FANTASTIC! the food was great, the service exceptional and the prices were affordable for my tourist budget!<br />
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Then, admitting that I'd never been to a proper tea house, tea lover that I am, we entertained the idea but I think we just ended up at a quaint sweet shop instead. I don't remember now what kind of cupcake i had. I was so pleased to be in a tiny space, decorated with vintage nineties lunch boxes on the walls and encouraging patrons to play a round of board games. I appreciate a place that promotes human connection in these technocrat-saturated times<br />
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I loved and appreciated this day with great friends, slowly walking through New York City. It was so quiet, so full of good conversation, of new friends and old ones talking about real things. I know many of the photos of our faces are blurry but I don't care, we were happy.<br />
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Peace. Love. Happy Change of Plans!</div>
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Books Are Magic is another book store I heard about in New York only this one I heard had a mural <span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">SO CLEARLY MY BODY WAS READY</span>!<br />
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Oh and it was a sweet little shop! I loved it for it's lack of crowd and vintage styled doors, for it's good light and it's encouraging reading merchandise. I loved it for it's comfy couch, it's wooden book nook and it's collection of childrens' literature that reminded me of my own childhood adventures between the pages.<br />
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From the moment I found out The Strand existed I knew i had to go there. I once read somewhere that everyone has different reasons for which they travel, different fascinations that grip them and with which they connect. My fascination with the human psyche is tied up snug with my love for literature. Literature is my history book of choice. I deeply believe that if you want to understand the culture of a people you can find it in the bindings of their uncensored opinions and that literature is a safe and faceless vehicle through which that is made possible.<br />
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I'm not a foodie so i don't connect with a culture through food. I come alive at museums and books stores and libraries. We don't have many of those where I am from so when I travel I feel like my soul is on fire to get to them, as many of them as I can to savour them and know them and climb into their warmth and be glad they exist in this world.<br />
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I went to The Strand Bookstore perhaps tree times in my last visit to the city of New York. It blew my mind every time.<br />
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I seem to have a fascination with taking pictures of my favourite books at wonderful books tores that honestly I don't understand myself. As if, by those books simply being there the book store has won more of my favour, racking up cool points and proving itself worthy indeed. The books are Carry On by Rainbow Rowell, Restore Me by Tahereh Mafi and the just comics with Storm, my forever favourite X-men character.<br />
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Here I am being a nerd with relatively new and extremely kind riend Jermaine<br />
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Looking at these pictures you'd never know how scared I was to head out on my own to find this place. The anxiety attack I had to beat before I got out the door...the prays I said. How I had to pick my fear up of the floor with both hands, stuff 'em in my back pocket and go anyway. Going to places like this reminds me that I am a real person, that I am alive and not just a character in a book. Is that strange? Maybe...Probably. Oh well.</div>
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I want to see all of New Yorks great book stores someday, I have a list and all! The Strand was first on my list. So far I have seen three from the five on my list. <br />
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Soon I will see more of them. I will come to know more of them. Then I will know the ones in Paris, in London and Italy. I will know them and they will know me and they will know books authored by me.<br />
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<br />Lizellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14732968490869330022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4166190881047707508.post-42042596376776106272018-11-03T19:44:00.000-04:002018-11-03T19:44:43.057-04:00I Started A Podcast :: Bibliotherapy and here's why!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I started a <a href="https://anchor.fm/thewordyphoneix">podcast</a> and it's all about books and the effect they have had on our lives over the centuries. How have they survived? Will they continue to survive? <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?!</span><br />
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I want to talk about all of the literary things, libraries and book formats and changes in the publishing world and healing through literature and the books that showcase all of these things. I do hope you'll have a listen? My first episode is up, it's called <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Bibliotherapy</span> which, I think is rather appropriate. There will be one episode a month.<br />
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I have been planning this ALL YEAR because I wanted to have this brain child be a mash up of research and opinion, fun plus facts! I'm doing this for the first time so I'm learning and making mistakes and correcting them as I find a way to record this for you<i>... PLUS you get to come with me!</i><br />
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<a href="https://radiopublic.com/bibliotherapy-G7XZ2A">Radio Public</a>,</div>
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I'll update this list as more platforms are added but for now....Find it on the platform of your choice. Have a listen! Tell me what you think?<br />
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Lizellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14732968490869330022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4166190881047707508.post-86409516899964508892018-10-14T23:33:00.000-04:002018-10-22T22:47:25.199-04:00Attending and Co-Chairing the Christian Writers Meet Up 2018 plus New Product Line!<br />
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I had the wonderful chance to co-chair at an event organised to encourage and motivate writers, who are Christian, in my country.<br />
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When I was asked to do this I knew that I had to, needed to, was called to do. I had been chatting with one friend or another about far off future plans and products I've been working on. They all seemed such big and far away dreams then....one of them was to use my gifts again this year in a way that would uplift the kingdom of Christ.<br />
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I've volunteered as a Sunday school teacher for almost a year. I've helped to plan and organise Women's Workshops at my home church, even being the Mistress of Ceremonies for it and I have represented my church, doing the featured sermon for our parish at previous women's workshops where we come together, fellowship, learn and worship. Still, I felt that I needed to do more, particularly with my most treasured talent; my way with the written word.<br />
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So when I was asked to do this, I was already watching everything a line. The idea for my next product launch was coming out of the fog and into the light. I was starting to know what I wanted to do and how I might do it. Then this seemed to randomly happen, this connection between two Christian women who wanted to serve the Lord and I just knew I was meant to do it.<br />
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The very colour scheme she had chosen for her event, I had already been working with the same colours with products I was creating before she told me what it was she had in mind and oh aren't moments like those grand? When your spirit leaps and you have that resounding affirmation like a bell inside your heart telling you this is the right answer? Would that we could get more answers like those so sure!<br />
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Of course insecurity got to me eventually; could I really do this? What was I playing at? Am I really going to make money off of The Lord's Word? Will digital art that I have put so much work, hours and heart into find it's market??? These are things that I struggled with during my design process. I know few consider digital art as prestigious or laborious enough to be worth payment. Ah, if they only knew!!<br />
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Back and forth I went with designs, colour changing, line angling. constructing, de-constructing and reconstructing sentences, printing prototypes, running them by friends again and again and again, considering how the designs and colours elicited different responses and what that meant for the over all collection.<br />
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With a little motivation from the right place, the founder of the event Jannel who unbeknownst to her, reminded me that <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">this was a project done with divine purpose and not just with passion</span>, I had a good shake off and got myself together. I remembered that half of the verses I would use in this deck found their way to me perfectly before the opportunity to use them did. Even before the project had fully formed in my brain!<br />
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I remembered that this action was so much bigger than I and I got back to work! I'm so glad I did!<br />
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Each of these designs was created with love an purpose. I laboured over the perfect colours, I researched the emotions those colours are known to bring out of many people. I searched the Holy scripture for verses that spoke from or to the heart of the writer, his or her struggle and successes. Atop that I ensured that there was not-so-hidden-poetry within each card so that if you read the highlighted words by themselves, they form their own kind of poetry!<br />
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This is the 'Brights' deck of The Lamp Lights Series. The symbol is an infinity heart seen in the background of the text on the info card. It is there to present the completeness of God's love and is done in a serrated line because though we are imperfect beings we are perfectly loved by Him. Hard to see it under that crazed line? Good, it's there on purpose because life gets crazy but this perfect love remains not phased.<br />
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Welcome my beautiful babies to the physical world! There is another deck to come in the end of winter/spring, summer and fall of next year. I'm also excited about some custom orders because these are motivational cards meant to keep you company on your desk or in your wallet or on your vision board, wherever you need them. <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Where ever they need to be I want them to be there for you.</span><br />
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These can be done for any event on a myriad of topics in a vast array of colour schemes. Interested in ordering a custom deck or perhaps a deck like these? It need to be for a Christian event but for a wedding, graduation, any even you desire I am happy to work with you to make it perfect with a set of motivational, inspirational cards unique to your own. Want a custom poem too? I got you boo. Let me know your thoughts and mood concerning the event and i will work with you towards greatness. Contact me via my facebook or instagram @ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheWordyPhoenix/">thewordyphoenix </a>and lets talk about it.<br />
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Thank you again to Jannel for having me and for letting me use so many of the photographs from the event.<br />
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for more on the event see the Inspirational Events facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/janeljeremiah/">here</a></div>
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article "Pick A Struggle" was published in the 100th issue of the
quarterly magazine published by the National Organisation of Albinism
and Hyper-pigmentation. ( NOAH ) The very same founders of NOAHCon.<br />
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Completing my Bachelors Degree was so hard for me as a visually impaired
teacher, simultaneously working so i could pay my way through school and
studying. Yet, here we are two years after I finished as the first of
my family to go this far academically. Here we are two years later, with
a published article that harnesses my struggles into tips that could
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I hate
talking about myself (i know i know, shocker!) because it always feels like a brag but I'm trying
to get more comfortable with it because there is no shame in
achievement. The more we share both struggle AND success i suspect the
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I'm proud to check this one of the bucket list in such a commemorative way. Did you read the article? Tell me, what'd you think?!<br />
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Lizellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14732968490869330022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4166190881047707508.post-30290265819690430552018-08-01T10:52:00.000-04:002018-08-01T10:52:10.832-04:00My Summer To Do List 2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Just popping in to say don't mind too much if it gets a bit quiet around these parts. I'm off on vacation for a bit so I'll see you with new stories to share soon friends!<br />
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What am I off in the hopes of doing? Here:<br />
<u><b>MY 2018 SUMMER TO DO LIST </b></u><br />
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<li>At least 3 crazy brave things.</li>
<li>Vlog !<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">(might count towards one of the crazy brave things because i'm actually quiet afraid to do this in public!)</span></li>
<li>Hug and love on people I have missed this past year.</li>
<li>Dance!</li>
<li>Laugh so much that I almost can't stand it!</li>
<li>Stretch and Grow.</li>
<li>Be Thankful.</li>
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I'll report back! In the meantime...<br />
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Peace. Love. Adventure Beckons!!!</div>
Lizellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14732968490869330022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4166190881047707508.post-83313370955992626562018-07-20T13:02:00.000-04:002018-07-20T13:02:01.950-04:00The Grenada Chocolate Festival 2018 :: The Chocolate Reign and the Mott Greene Legacy <br />
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extraordinary pleasure of being a part of the Grenada Chocolates Festival as a
local blogger for its 2017 activities. (If you missed any of that you can find
more on it my 2017 experience <a href="https://sandalsandsunnies.blogspot.com/2018/03/grenada-chocolate-fest-2017-recap-post.html">here</a>.) This year, I joyously had the opportunity
to attend a few of the Grenada Chocolate Festival's 2018 adventures. While I visited the Victory Chocolate
Company and the <a href="https://sandalsandsunnies.blogspot.com/2017/06/grenada-chocolate-festival-2017-making.html">Crayfish Bay Organic Cocoa Farm in 2017</a>, I was able to go to the
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as an intimate look at the life, vision and accomplishments of Mott Green. It was a bitter sweet gift to be able to have personal account of his life and passion for chocolate from people who where close with him and knew him, so very well. People like his business partner and friend Edmund Brown.</span><br />
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Eastern main road on to our destination in early morning, I had no idea my heart
would become so much more tied up in the local cocoa diligence as it did by
that day's end...It is so interesting how unexpectedly, a simple trip can change
you.. I suppose I should have known this already after all my crazy experiences on
vacation but I was about to learn that if you open yourself to receive
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the visiting of the old great house with a corresponding slave pen. If you’re not up
to speed, ‘The Great House’ was commonly the ‘Master/Slave Owner’s’ residence
where he lived with his family close enough to oversee his property. It is
often a structure made to be awe inspiring, full of grandeur and dignity. Even
with the passage of centuries the one we visited that day still architecturally
has that air about it. Contrastingly, the slave pen is just the opposite. It is
quite simply a claustrophobic, dark, dank, hole in the ground meant to break
and subdue the spirit of men and women. On this property the two still stand
footsteps apart. It hurts me every time to know that once people slept in a
hole footsteps away from parties and fêting…but I think the experience of that
pain remains important and I am glad that while we visited the cocoa plantation
on that property we were allowed to feel the effects of history, re-mastered,
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learning to recognize different species of cocoa by the leaves of their trees. We found ourselves, crunching dried leaves underfoot and looking up into cocoa framed, canapé skies.
The voice of our guide spoke as we weaved our way through low hanging branches and past healthy, over grown roots of seasons and of hidden flowers ahead of us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> The rainbow colours of cocoa pods at every peripheral, as we walked along
breathing in fruit fragrances and the intoxicating scent of cocoa in its
natural, cared for environment. All of which, infused with the sweet taste of
natural sugars, herbs, spices, clean air, Caribbean sunlight and rainforest
rainwater to naturally spur on growth… God, I love this country! </span></div>
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the factory for a tour of it, presentation on the founder of the Mott Green by
his partner, national dish eating and a little stopping at the famous bonbon
shop. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It was a packed day and I loved every moment of it! The entire thing was aesthetically pleasing sure
but do you know what really caught my heart in a vice? Mott Green worked
hard to establish the reign of the cocoa industry and now it is a beautiful
rain that threatens its very flourish…</span></div>
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was shocked to learn that our cocoa farmers are in danger of themselves
disappearing due to growing older, lack of younger people getting into
agricultural ventures and many other challenges the present day cocoa farmers
are facing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> Sorting coca with one of the ladies who has worked at the factory for decades!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I
had the opportunity to speak with one of our cocoa farms for an in-depth chat
about some of these challenges and we narrowed it down to two major issues
negatively impacting the Grenadian cocoa industry and how these issues are
frustrating farmers out of the profession while daunting and dissuading new
comers to it. We also of course, brainstormed how we might attempt to fix those glaring issues as, after all, it is in our best interest as cocoa enthusiasts, chocolate lovers and Grenadians to so do. Here is what we came up with:</span></div>
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local farmers are having serious trouble getting their cocoa produce sold due
to lack of drying facilities and storage facilities for housing wet cocoa.
Cocoa is as its peek in rainy season. However if the cocoa foundation has the
monopoly on buying cocoa from our farmers and they do not have a storage facility
large enough to house the vast amount of cocoa being produced on island, this
means that so much product can be lost to spoilage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> Pictured: Me amongst some of the early machinery Mott Green modified to make chocolate out of Grenadian estate farmed cocoa. I know that to some it may not mean much but when I look at it I see what happens when vision meets determination and births a thriving business that grows a national economy! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The Grenadian raw organic
cocoa market is expanding every day as demand continues to grow worldwide. Yet
less cocoa will be bought from our farmers, if there is no way to turn the raw
produce into a marketable good before the very climate that makes it great, also
sends it back to ground. This is leaving our local farmers with so much high
scale product and no one to whom they can sell it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><a href="https://www.grenadachocolatefest.com/contact/"><u>Invest</u></a>
in alternative drying methods. As a Caribbean island (Big up 473 Pure Grenada the Isle of Spice!) I believe that solar
powered cocoa drying facilities could be utilize to diminish cocoa being lost
to spoilage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><u>Build</u>
facilities uniquely tailored to the storage and drying of said cocoa on the
sight of cocoa plantations in an effort to encourage and empower local farmers
to produce and sell more dried cocoa. This may require an agricultural grant or
loan, material, the relevant training and certification workshops that would
encourage farmers to maintain community based cocoa drying facilities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><u>Increase Promotion of Organic Farming within communities rich in cocoa estates</u>. You see, continued
emphasis on organic farming and an investment in drying and storage facilities
for<a href="https://www.grenadachocolatefest.com/cocoa-farms/"> Grenadian Chocolate Companies</a> so that they can dry their farmer bought, organic cocoa
themselves, can only stand to positively propel the industry into further clean production or world so needs right now. This way, some of the burden can be taken of the local cocoa
society to store and dry wet cocoa, farmers may not have to travel as far out
of their communities to sell their produce and more home grown, organic cocoa
product is available for export alongside local consumption.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I
have seen my local cocoa product appreciated in my household for generations.
I have smiled as a whole industry has continued to boom around it, expanding
far into my past and likely far into my future. Now, the threat exists of
extinction due to something that <i>should not</i> daunt a Caribbean industry. The
issue of wet cocoa not being sufficiently dried before it is too late can be
fixed but are we willing to invest in our food and long term employment? Will
we see the longevity of an industry that continues to shower us in promise and
national pride?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">For
the love of cocoa tea, I sure hope so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Peace.
Love. Invest Locally.<br /><a href="https://www.grenadachocolatefest.com/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">All photos by The Grenada Chocolate Festival 2018</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">During the
<a href="https://www.grenadachocolatefest.com/">2018 Grenada Chocolate Festival</a>, I had the opportunity to attend another Yoga
Session and let me tell you, I was in for a very different experience. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The yoga
studio is in and of itself a very welcoming environment. It’s located as soon
as you enter the grounds of the True Blue Bay Resort and Villas. The far wall
is really just a beautiful set of floor to ceiling windows and the front of the
building opens onto a veranda that give you a bird’s eye view of the resort
grounds. The tree tops and even the ocean and the boats lazing on its surface in
the distance, take up full frontal view. Really, what could be more calming? Our
session was in the morning so of course it was accompanied by that always
refreshing inhalation of air you get from being high up and sweet, sweet, Caribbean
bird song to punctuate the passage of time.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I had the
second session with an instructor I’ve not done yoga with before, May Fakhre,
who has been practising yoga for over 10 years and has completed over</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">200-hour of Hatha
Vinyasa Yoga training.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I’m going to
go ahead and be honest here; I had a really hard time in this class, not
because of anything the trainer did but because I was feeling pretty unwell due
to personal health issues. I gave a good go at many of the poses but it was no
easy go for me let me tell you.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">In those
moments of struggle however, yoga yet again did the thing I love it most for…it
slowed my speeding brain down. I talked a little about this last year, when I
spoke about<a href="https://sandalsandsunnies.blogspot.com/2017/06/grenada-chocolate-festival-2017-i-find.html?showComment=1531580213363#c2597937704994793732"> my Grenada Chocolate Festival 2017 Yoga experience</a>. How yoga forces
me, I’d even venture to say it kind of grabs hold of me by the shoulders and
makes me look time in the eye, second by second. For a person with a
personality like mine, always thinking, always planning? Usually such a thing
sounds like an excruciating death sentence but yoga? Yoga has always had a way
of humbling me in a way that I do not find threatening but rather instead informing.
It sits me down in my own body, all the aches and pain and all and says well,
this is what we’re dealing with and you don’t get to ignore any muscle in this
body any more. This session focused on healing was no exception.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">This year
the session with May was a lot more advanced positioning than I’m used to so a
lot of the time you could find this girl flat on her back staring down some
hard truths about wellness and healing. Which, I suppose was fortunate as this year’s
theme was focused a lot on healing your body in stages from the top of your
head to the sole of your feet. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Our instructor talked a lot about the Grenadian organic
cocoa plants growth process from roots, to flower, to pod and while I’ve heard
this before, this year as we spoke of healing, we talked and I heard better
this time of the slow unfurling of leaves and flowers. It accosted me then, in
that room full of fresh air and chocolate fragrances that permeated the space throughout
our yoga practice, thoughts of the extension to the sky to catch the sunlight
cocoa plants do as they gather the necessities they need. All done long before
our dedicated, hard working farmers turn them in to rich, tree to bar, healthy
and humanely crafted dark chocolate for which my beautiful Caribbean country
has become so well known. It had me thinking about how badly we as human beings
want healing to happen quickly but how, even in nature, manifestation takes
time. It wasn’t a lesson my heart wanted to hear I will admit but it was one it
needed to hear, I know. I love how yoga helps me to get to that place of hard
truths with my body as a friend and not as foe. What an added bonus that the
Grenada Chocolate Fest 2018 rewards me with chocolate, as a part of that
journey.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">In
communication with May she said this of yoga ‘</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">it's a humbling journey of self-discovery and surrender.’ and
I couldn’t agree more on that day because those playful poses meant to have us
bending in ways that were healing and a bit giggly had me deep thing about what
It feels like when you’re not ready to heal.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">This is something I’ve
struggled with in various parts of my life at various points of my life. There
are moments when you are provided all the tools and all the grace necessary for
healing but what happens when you are not there yet mentally, physically or
emotionally?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I think that becoming
ill can teach you the answer to that question very quickly. On this Saturday I
was provided a skilled yoga teacher who provided instruction that was playful and
good for the body. I was in a healing and safe environment on the grounds of
the True Blue Bay Resort and Villas with chocolates to sample throughout the
yoga practice and bird song to calm my mind but my body and my mind were not
well enough to keep up.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">So, this is what I learned
through failed attempt at being a one hundred percent participant of this
healing through yoga exercise, during the Grenada Chocolate Festival 2018. This
is what you do when you’re not ready to heal:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">First, I suggest you
be still. It is often only in that moment of stillness that you can find the
peace to do what you’re going to need to do next. So take a breath friend, stay
in tuned and hold on to that act of being ever present in this moment no matter
what it feels like because you’re here, right then, no matter what that looks
like you’re still here and that means <i>change
can happen</i>.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Then, accept that
healing looks very different for everyone. Now while I lay on that floor in
that yoga session all about healing with people far more skilled than I bending
and twisting in ways I simply could not, best believe I had some none too righteous
feelings about my body and it’s ability. In that moment too, as I breathed my
way through it, I also had to acknowledge that I am not nor have I ever been
just like everybody else and I should not hate my body for that blessing. So
accept that healing just might look a little different for you than the people
around you and DO NOT blame yourself for that because that very difference? Just
may serve a blessing to you and others.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Lastly, embrace
modification. You know I have had a long and sordid affair with modification
from childhood up. I fought with it for a long time. I saw a lot of self
loathing happening then too for inconveniencing others by having to deviate
from the regular or the easily accomplished by others. Growing up I have
learned that there is a unique brilliance that can be found in modification. A
brilliance, only you can bring to an idea. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">So maybe, I didn’t walk out of that
beautifully housed and skilfully tutored yoga session feeling accomplished at
the practice or like a looked like I belonged there or blissed out on healing but you know what? I think
that day I got just the kind of healing I needed for me, a moment of self
reflection in the middle of a session focused on healing. Again, yoga managed
to shake me up properly though gently and remind me to feel even the bad
feelings and let them too usher me into healing.</span></span></span></div>
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that the scent of chocolate while doing yoga ad even the smooth taste of it
during practice, small as it may be enhances my experience by waking my senses
up and keeping them in the moment in a way I cannot explain. Thank you to the
Grenada Chocolate Festival 2018 and the open sankalpa <a href="https://truebluebay.com/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwvqbaBRCOARIsAD9s1XB0CcpVPLAJgPTOw2o9DgygkM2IRb85RijmBPQT7IWeq4UNUJH6NikaAuztEALw_wcB">True Blue Bay Resort and Villas </a>Yoga Studio for
another amazingly sensory experience and the delicious chocolate breakfast they provided one in conjunction with the event that day!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> Peace, Love, Feel Your Feelings. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">photography Grenada <a href="https://www.grenadachocolatefest.com/schedule/">Chocolate Fest 2018 </a></span></span></span></div>
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