What's your take?

To those who have read Daisy Chain, what would your answers be to the following questions (re pages 14 - 16)?

1. Who wrote the letter to Andrea—Mr. or Mrs. Port?
2. What was the relationship between writer and intended recipient?
3. What did the letter say?


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A Hearty Day

Yesterday a friend and I went to do some writing in a quiet place, away from civilisation. We ended up in Grand Riviere. There, I found many hearts ... or did they find me? Two of my favourites are below.

Heart-shaped hole in almond leaf that was floating in the river.

Partly wet, partly dry rock in shallow waters of the river.

Daisy Chain in today's Newsday Newspaper

Laptop streaming the event globally

Multimedia creator Elspeth Duncan treated global and London audiences to a techno-interactive reading from her novel Daisy Chain. Duncan, together with actresses Renée Castle, Catherine Hammond, Silvana Montaya and Doraly Rosa, with technical support by Liam Rezende, magically transformed an upstairs room of the Old China Hand Pub in Clerkenwell, London, into a performance space ... (continued in Newsday)
 
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For more insight into the creation of and inspiration behind Daisy Chain, please click here to listen to this UWI podcast in which I was interviewed by award-winning writer, Barbara Jenkins.

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To All, on Mothers' Day

"Give us something so that we may stop exploiting our own mother. Give us something so that we may tune into the cosmos to be worthy of our mother. Give us something so that we can relate to this creative power of the God which is the mother. Give us something by which we can honestly draw in our heart the image of Grace of the Mother. And, oh Lord of Lords of the time, if you have created this world, create those environments where everybody’s mother, sister, and every woman on this planet can live with grace and there shall be no circumstances in which she has to sell her beauty, sell her body, sell her being, or sell her consciousness to exist on this planet."

(Yogi Bhajan, excerpt from May 1971 lecture, Mother's Day)

Screening of films by the girls from India

 

 

Tues 22 May 2012

7:00 p.m.

Little Carib Theatre

 

The films created by the girls who participated in the film workshop in Kolkata, India, will be shown as part of TTFC's new film screening initiative at Little Carib Theatre—"Filme Caribe - An Evening of Shorts." On the night I will give a short talk to put the project into context.

The films "Siege: and Sans Souci" (Francesca Hawkins, Dion Boucaud, Junior-Andrew Lett) will also be screened. There will be a Q & A after.

Tickets cost: $35 TT  and are available from the Trinidad and Tobago Film Company (TTFC) 625-3456, info@trinidadandtobagofilm.com

 

 

YOGA BOUQUET: May - July 2012

An invitation was extended to "Imagine a field full of flowers. Each flower stands for something which, when in full bloom, makes your existence immensely fulfilling ..."

The series of our next ten consecutive Kundalini Yoga classes is: "YOGA BOUQUET", made up of Flowers chosen by those who responded, suggesting Flowers dedicated what they want to bloom in their existence.

HOW THE FLOWERS WERE PICKED:
Of the Flowers submitted via email, some were suggested by multiple people. Those were counted and listed in order of majority (See Flowers 1 - 6 below, with most people wanting The Flower of Inner Peace, then True Love, etc). The remaining single answer Flowers were placed in "a hat" and selected at random to get Flowers 7 - 10.

THE BOUQUET OF CLASSES
Each of the classes listed below will feature a Kundalini Yoga kriya and meditation designed to assist you in realizing the essence of that week's Flower. What you will experience in each class is the planting of that Flower's seed. How we water each Flower thereafter, to assist it in growing and blooming, will be the 'homework' given at the end of the specific class.

1. THE FLOWER OF INNER PEACE

2. THE FLOWER OF TRUE LOVE

3. THE FLOWER OF DIVINE PURPOSE

4. THE FLOWER OF PRIME HEALTH

5. THE FLOWER OF WISDOM

6. THE FLOWER OF CREATIVE EXPRESSION

7. THE FLOWER OF "RIGHT CHOICES"

8. THE FLOWER OF STRENGTH

9. THE FLOWER OF UNDERSTANDING

10. THE FLOWER OF LOVERS

WHEN ARE THE CLASSES?
The Yoga Bouquet series will begin with The Flower of Inner Peace on the week of Wednesday 9 & Friday 11 May 2012. Classes will be every Wednesday and Friday thereafter, with the exception of the week of 8 - 14 July, when I will not be in Trinidad. The last Flower (The Flower of Lovers) will therefore be on Wed 18 and Fri 20 July.

PAYMENT FOR CLASSES
1. Those wish to commit to all ten classes consecutively, may purchase a Passport for the reduced rate of $50/class ($500 prepaid at first class only. Thereafter the Passport will not make economic sense to the student).
2. Those who only want certain Flowers, who do not wish to commit to a Passport or cannot attend the first week's class will pay the regular rate of $60 per class.

Wednesday classes: YWCA, 22 Alexandra Street, St. Clair
Friday classes: Reimedi Spa, 1 Ragbir Street, Curepe (outdoors) and Keisha's Studio, St. Augustine (indoor rainy day venue).

For more information and to make contact, please visit http://www.thouartyoga.com/

Looking forward to magnificent blooms!

Sat nam.