My MINISTRY: Still Striving to Create the Cosmos. All Art by Mirlande Jean-Gilles

"Hi Maven, how are you?! I just read your post about planting vegetables, and I wanted to know something - what is the vision you have for your life? I ask because I just finished a weekend workshop that had me thinking about things."
 
 Hi Yvette Darling..

Did you also see the article i posted on life drifting. My life and life vision ran aground a long time ago, like in 1996/8, it is just that I did not realize it.

My vision now relates to making money under and for social justice reasons.

I envision a multi prong agenda:

1. an artist collective for innovators, thinkers, and creators. I will add you to the group. It is relatively inactive, but I am always building up the model. It is a means for those of us to fund our own projects, creations, bring to market our ideas

Conscious Creative Collective 99 it is called.

Then, I want to own and operate a complex that comprises a restaurant, cafe, bar, meeting and business center. a place to eat, drink, relax, and retreat while being around amazing brains.

It is really my attempt to create the enjoyable environment where juices and networkings can flow. Also a place from which big things can emerge/

What are the big things. Here is the meat of the matter.

Business. Enterprise. Innovation. ICT>

Films and Music.

1. I want to create a global crowd funding platform, separate from the US models. Folk outside the US cannot access those platforms like gofund me, etc...none of them. you need to be american with a bank, credit card, license and address. So that is the big thing

Why is this valuable? a way for citizens to fund their own development and business as long as there are people who vibe with your ideas. /

So imagine a crowd funding site for every country outside the US? and how much money that will make???

2. I want to get into ICT and apps creation in a big way

I have several apps i want made that would be phenomenal

a. No Vote/Spoil a Ballot App that allows Real time Counting and assessment, Imagine it applied mostly in places where the system have gone awry, always was, or has a lot of corruption like here in Trinidad.

Citizens can wrench the politics with this app. If they count the citizens who took that option and see if they form a powerful enough bloc by numbers, they may choose to buck the establishment, if they organize. It is collectivizing random and pocket activism to become more powerful.

b. I want to create a gambling app for a program that is common in the developing countries and china. called play whe, or whe whe, or just plain numbers. I want to put that on a mobile phone. there are people who make their lives by this game, playing up to four times a day. THe numbers would increase if the option resided in their hands and mobiles rather than trekking to outlets.

this too is global, every country can implement.

c. I wanted to find a way for citizens and workers to own 49% of our telephone mobile company. and replicate that model around the globe, mainly africa always..

correlate the ICT company with licenses to broadcast and so you own the mediums of message conveyance.

related to that create a stock exchange, so all the businesses i create, that can all be licensed to different companies can list on that page for investment, growth and expansion. more money.

the aim was to create a Black Business Economic Freedom Justice Base.

d. One of the ultimate goals was to set up in the US a National Social Justice Operation whereby every single time that there was environmental injustice or police brutality, a team would be dispatched to the victim and family, outlining the options and offer of support and representation. So victims would not be traumatized into paralysis. They would not have to look for help. help is dispatched.. An office in every state, listing partners such as lawyers, counselors, medical practitioners.

That is the vision and dream at this time, but I could not be at the most wrong place but the universe knows best.

Most folk dont think as big as I seem to and i have never had the support or resources to make these things happen. Even when I meet folk who may have the talent to create apps, they are busy.

your mail comes at an interesting time as I was just talking to my mom about getting a life coach, but even a coach to do the major things I envision is really a challenge.

Now, personally, my life vision now, I think to become a one woman stage performer, sharing my poetry, life experiences, challenges, my wilderness...I think to turn my poetry into music. Just this weekend I spoke of that with my cousin, He is Roderick Gordon, Chucky , a local artist here, whose music is changing. I want to be a social justice singer in the form of lauryn hill, nina simone, on guitar and piano and i can play neither. Since Michigan though I bought a guitar to try and learn. never did. Just had it there as prop. There is a part of my family here that are big national musicians: Penguin, Chucky. Roland Gordon, two of which are now dead.

And overall I still dream of being this international author, i have so much material. 50 volumes of journals, endless poetry, must have 500 pieces by now. My professional essays there are about five. my dissertation on social mobilization and change theory./ and a film script I wrote that i wanted to be a novel but no fiction came out. and it is episodic, so i realized it is more a film treatment than a written genre. I want to make that product. I sent it into the Kevin Spacey Foundation just about a month ago.

Then I want to have children. lol

Even as I am now 51.

That is about it sister.

I look forward to hearing about your weekend workshop, why you asked, what you are thinking. how it all integrates.

all in all girl, i am still striving to make it

PS Yvette, in 2013, I was doing organic farming , it just did not work out, one i got swindled on the land, and two, again, i had no support. farming is heavy lifting. But I am always about raising and growing my own food.

I had a plan about that as well. Should i have flourished and grown in this area, I wanted to turn a dismissed part of Trinidad into a food basket: Moruga. Vast lands untouched, to raise clean organic animals for spiritual offerings (a big thing for Trinidadians and Orisas) and the food.