A year ago today one of my dearest friends died. She died way too young. But she was sick and although she fought it, I can’t help but feel that she knew that her end was near. Sometimes when we spoke, she’d say “Lisi, I don’t want to die. There’s so much I want to…
Category: Thoughts on Things
time change
It’s now already June. This year is blowing by and catching a day, hoping to let it last longer than a few moments seems to be an impossibility. Yesterday, I wrote my May’s Moments on the back of my May month calendar page. It’s now something I’ve come to enjoy. As I looked back at…
ma 間
The character for ‘ma‘ is written with the Chinese character for door and the character for sun, giving the impression of sunlight filtering through a doorway. The concept of ma is integral to the Japanese culture and aesthetics, appearing in many different domains – from art to architecture, gardening to interior design, and from conversation…
brawler
It’s been a while since I enjoyed a book as much as I did Lauren Groff’s Brawler. Her writing reminds me of (a bit) of Jhumpa Lahiri’s. Clean and crisp – never overly emotional, trite or dripping with adjectives. Every now and then though, she drops a lyrical line here and there reminding you that…
waiting…
Often, I stand at my window and wait for the shadow of the neighbour’s tree to fall on the street below. I love that moment when the shadows slowly materialize and then evaporate — like painting with water on a hot stone. As the clouds move, the shadows show themselves again. Like magic. Copyright ©…
counting green
For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green. – John Ronald Rueul Tolkien In Guyana — and I imagine in every other Caribbean country — at any time, if you were to look out the window, you could easily count…
with my yellow pen…
This idea was given to me by my cousin. She uses my calendar as a type of journal, writing highlights from the month at the back of each page. I love the idea and started doing it myself. My calendar comes as loose A4 pages so writing on the back is quite easy. The paper…
seeing red
I don’t know if it’s because they’ve been doing work just outside my house today — putting up a new electrical pole because the old wooden one was janky and woodpecker pecked — but I’m in a mood. The noise has been non-stop and though I live on a pretty busy street and can hear…
aftertaste / residue
I love movies. Love the way they allow me to sink into another world so I can be absorbed into it. Thoughtful attention to framing scenes, strong acting, sensitivity to and the juxtaposition of colours and lines – and yes, a tight plot-line are qualities that make a movie for me. Films don’t have to…