Joanne Collins beautiful and timely. 18 years RIP granny, this would suit her x
- Maven Huggins makes me field the invisibile hand is present. If only...
Joanne Collins her official birthday is 20th June and she died 20th June 1993. But I celebrate 28th June as her birthday as that's what he did all her life. It was only when she died that we found out her birthday wa 20th June. She was 80 when she died. I miss her
- Maven Huggins
read you: "her official birthday" as if we talking of a Queen whose birthdate is one day but the national celebration is another. LOL> hahaha...too apropos
i thought it was around that. I did not know it was switched. look at me learning so...mething new about my grandmother just so, easy easy. unexpected...and seeming to light a candle for her, me unsuspecting. that is powerful. needed on a battering day. girl. lord.
if it be so ;) L:ove Jo/See More
Joanne Collins peace and love in TRUE HONOR OF MY ONLY QUEEN. Grieft really is eternal. Thanks for the image. She woke at 3am to pray and 6am she was tending to plants so this kinda image always makes me thinks of her. Thanks to the ancestors who guided you to this image knowing it was needed. Timely, Godspeed to ya xx
- Maven Huggins I remember that of Grannie...waking in the middle of the night to pray by candlelight...there is much road i need to travel to return to where i need to be...
- Maven Huggins our parents really show and teach us how and who we are to be, eh?
and i paused there for a long while thnking...i have always been touoched and puzzled by people who die on the day of their birth. so i am mulling over 6/20/13...6/20/93...and it hits me . know when my birthday? 2/6. interesting huh?
Joanne, did Grannie ever talk of Gramma to you or of Pa Neezer?
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Joanne Collins she was meant to be a really loving woman who the villagers (Tortuga) looked up to and would come to for supportive prayers and healing. When granny was really hurt she would cry for her
Joanne Collins Pa Neezer I am not sure, Elsie and her husand would've known bout him but sadly they are both deceased now. Elsie came up regular to pray with granny
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- Maven Huggins we come from a line of powerful powerful powerful women. no wonder we shake so many by our wakes
Joanne Collins Its so important to hand down the stories. I don't think the ancestors could ever imagine what a capitalist society we would become. I agree, I know more about the women than the men. Yet men were not hated. Granny favoured her sons, despite protest!
Maven Huggins i know. to the resentment of another set of women ;)
its deep actually, given the end; and deep for it is part of the caribbean cultural feminine construct that i for one will break, should i ever have my own children...but it is deep. powerful women loving their sons, and um...doing what with the women?
wow. just glad i was a grand and not first line
Joanne Collins Uncle Carl spoke about being in hospital in his youth and grandma huggins walking from the village with supplies to visit him A walk that took a good few hours. Grandparents rule!
- Maven Huggins it is she who raised them. it was Gramma Analiza who was their mother.
that is another fact and tradition I am seeing...many of us have more than one mother; or that our birth source may not be our parent, mother or guide
by her granddaughter Melise Huggins 02/06/65 ---> traveling to 100>
my every thought, consideration, theory, muse, word and whim
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
IN Memoriam of Ruth Huggins 06/20/13 - 06-20-93
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
The Alter and Is are One
Melville Foster: "Very dangerous in Trinidad.You will get your mc squared."
but wake i do, and i am..to this...http://www.youtube.com/wat
during the eight o'clock hour...i am dreaming and... travelling time and space, and dimensions...for the collapse of factors leave no other explanation>
i am driving through Laventille, Leigh Miller, a friend from college is in the car. for some reason we are fiddling with what can only be some smoothie I made, red full with raspberries and thick probably with mango. and it splatters on the back seat. not plenty, just little dots. seems like it happened just as I approach my aunt's cafe and house. the former no longer operational, for decades now, but my Aunt and Uncle are both sitting in the gallery, and there to hail me out as I approach, having pulled up into the yard opposite them. it is like I pulled into their yard, but their house and the street was the opposite side. so you see what is happening already. It is and It Isn't. My Aunt hails me first. My Aunt Lilla has been dead since 1995? She came to visit me as she was leaving. She appeared to me in my home, at my door, with a paint pail bucket holding in her hand. I since learned in photos and images that is the exact paint pail can that the Annunakis are always imaged to have in photos.
She appeared not as a spirit/ghost but as a fully formed human body, dressed like how she and my grandmother dressed, I failed to say she was my Great Aunt. and she would not leave though she frightened me senseless, and even then, even as I knew nothing compared to what i know now, I did not get frightened with encounters with spirits, which i had a lot - all my brother I believe except for this one, but then again, maybe they/there were others>>>anyway, my Aunt stayed for what seems like a long time, because I kept getting frightened and running from the room and trying to gather myself in the age old teaching of stay to hear what they came to tell you, but i just could not get calm, how do you see someone as another human who appears in your home, at 2am in the morning, and you never opened the door? That Aunt Lilla, she was waving hailing me out from the gallery, as I approached a stand pipe in the yard, that was her yard, that does not and never existed where I was, close to the road, and the yard was on an up incline, when in fact, it is a down. And then Uncle Dennis, her husband gave me quiet right, quiet soul as he is and was, especially at the end, but Uncle Dennis died about eighteen months ago. But they there sitting in the gallery to greet me, I home doing what i need to do as normal, no questions asked>
I get water on a cloth, i clean the car spots. Leigh is in the passenger seat, i guess she is visiting, and I had both my side doors open. I run back over to the road to rinse the cloth, turn around and the vehicle is gone. I literally look as if I am in a dream, that that cant be true. Meta moment> in a dream, saying I must be dreaming, wake up, cause this cant be true. My Aunt and Uncle never said a word if the car was driving off, and I wonder, how it is Leigh did not scream and I did not hear the car as it is reversed and pulled out and sailed down the road. Nothing. But the vehicle is gone. Then I get worried about Leigh, whomever took the vehicle, took Leigh with it.
then I calmly say, damn, now i gotta go find the crew mafia head man to go get these fools to send my car back. I gotta go back. Driving in the direction I came from..that road in Laventille is one way...and guess what i am driving to get there? My car. My vehicle. My SUV, the one that was stolen>
I woke up when I was way down the street, at another parlor where a lot of Laventille men hang out. the dream ends there, and I start to realize> I just had a non dream dream alter/ of it is and it isnt theme
and then I ponder, why Aunt Lilla and Uncle Dennis. These ancestors of all. Aunt Lilla is one of my most significant protectors, I have learned. testament to her coming to me, when she was leaving. I think she came to tell me who i am, that I would not get for years still. And Uncle Dennis he does just watch quietly, say nothing but put all things, into place. set things in order. And he died thinking I was crazy, but he marry a crazy woman, so no scene. But they appeared to tell me. doh mind the appearance of things and how they look. Everything in order. And everything being monitored. And all those who think they acting and role playing. it is all just a dream delusion of their non affect and power. And so I wake up. writing all this, even as I slept like a bear in hibernation through a rain squall>> no lime leaves for me to get in this downpour
Have a blessed day.
My title name is Maven. I am a fb Addict. I not going NoWhere, where it is I am from. ")
11am 06.22.11
~`1
Saturday, June 11, 2011
The Lessons at the River, Francis Morean
cheers
Francis Morean June 11 at 7:35pm
The day is still young.
and I would like to pay you another compliment. I think you have grown a lot. A whole lot. Very often when I compliment women they accuse me of flattery when in fact I mean exactly what I mean.
It turned out to be not much of an adventure but I need to thank you for coming/going nevertheless. My feet feel much happier for having been immersed in the river.
At least one of the questions that you asked me has been answered in the paper that was used to wrap your bottle of wine.
THese are just random notes that am sending you but I would like to chat a bit about the river now.
Sometimes on evening I would go down by the river and scatter bits of bread or rice or corn meal for the fishes. Whenever I do it am reminded of my grandmother who was the earliest mentor and hero in my life and who I credit in many ways with being my first teacher in herbal remedies.
One of her principal philosophical positions was that one should "Cast your bread upon the waters"
By this she meant that no matter how little one has one can and should still give. She gave. The river flows and it just gives. It does not discriminate as to who should receive. Sometimes women may have babies and their breasts do not give milk. In the majority of instances it is not a physiological disorder. It is an absence of giving.
In Tobago I have heard stories of old African women in their seventies and older whose daughters lost their lives and who had to then take their of their grandchildren. These elders would go to the sea or to the river and they comb their breasts and speak to the flowing water and the milk in their breasts would begin to flow again so that they can nurse their grandchildren.
Now this may sound sexist but a lot of women suffer a very of sicknesses due to their unwillingness to give or their belief that whatever they give has to be given with a price. They give conditionally or they hold back from their sisters, their husbands, their charges and from the society of which they are part. Very often they replace a spirit of giving with a salary which can provide for their physical well-being but which can never really fulfill the other needs in their life.
They can learn a lot by just sitting by the river, in whatever state the river may be, whether clean or polluted, and learn many lessons.
Friday, June 10, 2011
One day's Pics of Love and Third Eye Sightings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRrFWp4DUho
wrote...
"wow. love that pic. where are your parents? do they farm? Is it organic (no chemicals)? I would buy directly from them if it were.
my dream is just to be an organic farmer? I love this pic.
too weird. something about it makes me cry. i am such a dunderhead.
maybe something speaks to me that i have no words for. and maybe this is my obama and michelle pic that i posted today. please have a look.
love to you for coming from such wholesomeness
i have no idea what is wrong with me"
Maybe Love is calling Me
"they are too damn amazing is what i say. but i hold out one umph of an inch for reserve, given all we have seen unfold with other public married couples. but no doubt they show up as unbelievably amazing. They dont fake love each other, the...y not there for the sake of the marriage, family, children parents. Them too really have it for each other. Still enthralled with each other, cause the pics dont change, just the ime and the clothes (check them before they were famous)
I have no words/ If i were to be so appointed.
thanks for posting ;)
for a sister like me, I take great and high glow and reflected glory to find companionship like this in the public eye. Glad to see another chocolate sister so publicly regarded
It is also an unbounded thing for us to have a black president who shows up so thoroughly as a man committed, in love, and in covenant with a woman, and she being a damn smart, no nonsense, stylish and matched sister, i tellyou there are no words.
HA!
let the worship begin?>
worship of an idea, an ideal walking, living breathing, the worship of the possible
and someone told me the other day that to be with someone, one must compromise on 'morals" what they meant was standard, but say what. this story can go on and on>>>I read one other sister say, that how come when she meets amazing men that she vibes with they are always married and the comment came back, because those wives made those men
I do not doubt that Michelle MADE Obama. In fact, he has always said that> More reason why as a man. A Man, not a president< I love that man. I love the sister who is so strong in who she is, that despite her abilities, she is largely silent but yet, moving volumes
♥
effuse/write much?"
I have no words/ If i were to be so appointed.
thanks for posting ;)
for a sister like me, I take great and high glow and reflected glory to find companionship like this in the public eye. Glad to see another chocolate sister so publicly regarded
It is also an unbounded thing for us to have a black president who shows up so thoroughly as a man committed, in love, and in covenant with a woman, and she being a damn smart, no nonsense, stylish and matched sister, i tellyou there are no words.
HA!
let the worship begin?>
worship of an idea, an ideal walking, living breathing, the worship of the possible
and someone told me the other day that to be with someone, one must compromise on 'morals" what they meant was standard, but say what. this story can go on and on>>>I read one other sister say, that how come when she meets amazing men that she vibes with they are always married and the comment came back, because those wives made those men
I do not doubt that Michelle MADE Obama. In fact, he has always said that> More reason why as a man. A Man, not a president< I love that man. I love the sister who is so strong in who she is, that despite her abilities, she is largely silent but yet, moving volumes
♥
effuse/write much?"
Guess I was channeling LoveHeart all day. Cause i made this iced tea and put it in the freezer, forgot it
and when I took it out the center was not filled, and as I tried to make it bigger, to break the ice to drink, a Heart was before me.
then, later today, I saw this picture, parents of a fb
friend of mine...and I was again touched...and
wrote..."wow. love that pic. where are your parents? do they farm? Is it organic (no chemicals)? I would buy directly from them if it were.
my dream is just to be an organic farmer? I love this pic.
too weird. something about it makes me cry. i am such a dunderhead.
maybe something speaks to me that i have no words for. and maybe this is my obama and michelle pic that i posted today. please have a look.
love to you for coming from such wholesomeness
i have no idea what is wrong with me"
Maybe Love is calling Me
Mapping, Musing and Theorizing "the Connection of Illiteracy, Powerlessness and Anger/Bitterness/Resentment"
Renee Cummings Franka Philip you are so on point! Same observation!
Franka Philip It easier to discern when you come from the outside. I have felt that Trinis use fete and party as a way to mask this anger that is clearly there and that no one wants or knows how to face up to.- Franka Philip Exactly. If we don't use things like our culture, the arts and sport to help dissipate the anger among the youths things will get worse.
Camille Pierre @Franka, more than that, if we do not start teaching and showing our young people how to problem solve, appreciate, respect and care for themselves, others and by extension all things, there is no way things will get better... not even culture/arts/sports.- Renee Cummingshow much worse...they will kill out each other, domestic violence, men killing women, now women killing men, men setting women on fire, like we're back in medieval times, children fighting like its the heavy-weight championship of the world..., boys killing each other at gun point, men raping and burning young girls on tires, child sexual abuse on the rise, incest rampant, husbands killing and burying wives in shallow graves, crime down but violence on the rise, suicide is the norm, a hero's welcome for persons accused of corruption and the government's celebrating like it just won the lotto, our society has lost direction, everyone want to be "in power" but no one seems interested in using their power to empower others...imagine, I have to run back to NY to relax, NY is high-stress central but now seems more relaxing than my island paradise...Franka Philip what do you prescribe for this ailment?
- Franka Philip Education at all levels. Somehow people need to learn to get in touch with their emotions and deal with them - especially men. It's a total cultural change but for younger people, I strongly suggest using other outlets. I also wonder if a lot of this has to do with illiteracy? People who are illiterate usually feel powerless because they can't go anywhere. I dunno, I just wondering.
- Camille Pierre @Renee, it is most unfortunate. These things will have to overtake us before we see a new dawn. Whilst we may not want to get scriptural, we may want to look at how we allow individual and collective elements to infiltrate our values and replace them with indifference.
- Franka Philip I would suggest Nichiren Buddhism. One of the key tenets of our practice is that each person must be respected.
- Renee Cummings ...they will have to learn to spell it first and that in itself will be a challenge...
- Camille Pierre I not sure it is illiteracy... thinking merely simple here of course...could it be just about how to do good and feel good?
- Franka Philip Oh gorm. But seriously though, the education system is a failure. Education should not only be for utility, it should be for a holistic purpose and developing the whole people.
- Camille Pierre yes Franka, but according to whose standards?
- Franka Philip That's for Trinidad to work out.
- Camille Pierre Thanks for that...happy you did not say "government"...lol!!!
- Franka Philip Only if you get smart people in government. not duncey people.
- Camille Pierre I am sure if anyone were to do a real search into the archives of the ministry of ed. they will find a ton load of documented and relevant information to move the process forward, just sitting thick with dust. These are not new situations.They have simply escalated.
- Franka Philip True dat girl.
- Maven Huggins I find this stream fascinating and glad I got to read it.
I think there is a total misinformation on what literacy is and the wide range and totality of illiteracy in all manner of human action and function> folk often and merely, simply think literacy and illiteracy is about reading letters, words and sentences. that is just a foundation, one pillar say of...awareness? education? consciousness?
my last published paper was on illiteracy so i am constantly fomenting upon it..
but I wonder if you all see the links you have theorized and proposed?
Amazing to me:
One thing I say all the time and was happy to see someone else write it:
"a violent and brutal society populated by angry resentful bitter people who self medicate by party, sex, drink and lime"
Then, this revelation that people here seem to never get: for calling those who have eyes, blind, foren* or negative:
"It easier to discern when you come from the outside. "
I love this bit on integrating the role of "our culture"
" If we don't use things like our culture, the arts and sport to help dissipate the anger among the youths things will get worse."
So, from that comment and this thread, I wonder/see--is it that 'tt culture is a pacifier as opposed to being an elevator?' Cause Stop the Presses< who would think (sarcasm alert)
Then this gets to a recent project i have been passing off to men, a call for Talk Circles, MenTalk I call it ..
"Somehow people need to learn to get in touch with their emotions and deal with them - especially men."
But the piece d resistance was this tidbit:
"I also wonder if a lot of this has to do with illiteracy? People who are illiterate usually feel powerless because they can't go anywhere. I dunno, I just wondering."
and I muse of 'the connection of Illiteracy, Powerlessness and Anger/Bitterness/Resentment???'
Sorry, I just had to mirror your collective brilliance. ♥
Resurrecting Pa Neezer, Correcting Obeah
Ayanna Gillian Lloyd Head of a papa ebenezar (spelling?) from moruga. I think he has passed over though. There is a book written about him but I am not sure of the name
Maven Huggins the book is the worse book i ever read. He is Papa Ebenezer Elliott, my direct descendant; my great grandmother's nephew and godson. Vladmir, please tell me what you are doing? I am always interested to learn and reclaim what has been lost...
Ayanna Gillian Lloyd @maven powerful ancestor! I have not read the book. what was awful about it? I hope it was not derogatory
Ayanna Gillian Lloyd @maven powerful ancestor! I have not read the book. what was awful about it? I hope it was not derogatory-
Maven HugginsYes Ayanna. I think so, And have set my life purpose to reclaim my ancestral heritage. It was not just Pa Neezer, but my great Grandmother, Annaliza Huggins was a healer by hand, her daughter, my grandmother Ruth Huggins was a healer by her...bs. I am way behind the curve
about the book: It has been years since I read it, so my critique of it will not be as tight given the dismissal from memory, but if I recall, the book was supposed to be about Pa Neezer but instead this writer transgressed every anthropological rule there ever was, and wrote about her self most. Second, the book gave no insight, intrigue, understanding, highlight as to who Pa Neezer was in any context, not family, not history, not personality, nothing about how he came to be. And what i find astounding, in the last year, I discovered he was and we are African American descendants, of those who fought in the American Civil war as freed slaves and who were granted land by the British, in the colony Trinidad, and settled as the Companies. None of that is mentioned in this book that was supposed to be about him. I also recall a text full of grammatical, syntax and quality errors; poorly conceived and written. I have often wished for others to read and critique to check my memory, but then I remember this is also a place where i saw a text written by Selwyn Ryan at UWI, probably around 2006, full of errors, so i thought, who is going to see anything.>>
it is ashame and a burning sting that a book would have been purported, but so poorly done, is best and is as if, none were.
we remain to find out about this figure
i think so much work needs to be done and corrected about obeah. first of all the perception, and to reclaim and let it be known that it is just alchemy, healing, medicine and magick of altering cause and effect;
i hope and pray
Maven Huggins a book of all of them; that name, i just heard of recently and was piqued by it; my grandmother smoked a pipe made of corn husk
Ayanna Gillian Lloyd that is a shame indeed. maybe the work remains for you. i know of the story that many moruga families are descended from those companies. my family (granderson) is supposed to be also from what the research has told us but i don't know too much about it; so much many of us do not know about ourselves.
Nikita Alcala Maven we hadda talk. Thanks Ayanna. The book on Papa Neeza is called 'he had the power' or something so
Vladimir Lucienok here i am. the African-Americans from Moruga were called 'Merikins' if I recall correctly. Want to do some work down in moruga. Research wise. I think a lot has been misunderstood about there and ignored...historically. There was a forei...gner who recently did some work down there and presented his findings at Alice Yard some time this year. Trying to get in touch with him to see the merit of the work. And Moruga i mean not just in terms of its importance to Afro-Trinis, but the Kali Mai Pooja (which is somewhat taboo in the Hindu world) takes place down there I believe as well (in Tuna Puna also)See More
Maven Hugginsthat is right. Merikin. I am part, though i stopped going to the meetings because the person running it is a sham, but i was brought in to help them manifest a project, they want to create themselves into a national heritage site, but there... are so many obstacles to the movement forward. all having to do with shady, treacherous and incompetent people they let fly their flag.
i have written the Smithsonian, and several colleagues in the states but no one has taken it up..i agree..great significance down there ignored.
I even wrote to UTT to give me a fellowship to do that work/ the clothes is still out on the line...
if you get down there, please let me know, i will tag along and not doing anything now, between gigs. Even thought to move down there...
wanted to do video interviews of the old people but ...but...but...
Please link me with the person who did the work down there, had no idea or awareness of such>
yes, lets talk
Vladimir Lucien off air (fb) gimme ur number and we cd talk when the time comes. I just got the name of the man who conducted the research. lets keep in touch. im gettin off facebook now. laters...dont forget to inbox. ill respond tomorrow with the info. my internet @ home is down
RE: Obeah
Marvin George June 9 at 11:32pmYeah: about 11 years ago - while I was doing an Associate Degree in Management at COSTAATT - I started looking at Obeah as a research topic. At that time I think Michael Anthony was (perhaps) the only person, who wrote about Papa Neeza. He is synonymous with Obeah and like the science has suffered some level of ridicule in calypso and local consciousnes. Now that doh mean I anti kaiso or calypsonians. Like everything in a post-plantation society we have to expect the schism in the psychie; because make no mistake about it, Trinis love Obeah too eh!
But what MUST also happen - as Maven has pointed out - is that there must be efforts as restitution. Plenty things get bruised here. Obeah is just one. It is a legitimate word/practice/science; refer Maureen Warner Lewis. It is not an English word; but English damage it. So this kind of work is important.
Anyway, I kept interest in the subject, but never made it a full study. The text on Pa Neeza is Dr. Frances Henry's "He Had The Power". I suspected there were some gaps/weaknesses. My spiritual mother gave me a story that I found in the book. And given the fact that I had to live with my spiritual mother for about one week, and hear that story every day, I came to believe that Henry's story may be flawed, and well...
So, if you all are interested, we could talk further. I am here.
Strength!
Marvin
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