To Harpo HookUps
I am a ... Jill of Trades, Skills and Talents and of an interesting peculiar fascinating heritage and life.
I have a PhD in Development Economics; lived and worked in Africa (I wanted to be a Prof or House Marm at Oprah’s SA school). I am a writer (three essays book published, several essays and poems on the net), poet (nine volumes compiled), blogger, journaler 44 volumes) and a film script/novel writer; artist, photographer; chef and recipe book writer. I am an entrepreneur, social and monetary; and budding life coach. I am 46 and look 32 or maybe even 26 with the right location and clothing.
I have been watching Oprah since the day she went national in 1986. I remember the Newark Delaware basement I lived in waiting for my Bachelor degree program to end. And have followed her faithfully since then. Sometime in the 90s or so, I dreamt I would like to take over from her when her time shifted or ended; which is now; but my evolution itself has shifted…I dream just to be the me I am to be, and want to put that into the world; These requests for HARPO hookups are very much in aid of me manifesting those aspects of me that are kept within, outside the public domain.
I have lived many incarnations: five states, two countries, visited many more, and still waiting for my life purpose to sing.
I come from a line of healers and alchemists with the gift of the hand and mind to alter reality. A famous character in Trinidad and Tobago was an infamous Obeah man, PaPa Neezer was my great grandmother’s nephew and I recently learned that he.they.us were originally freed American slaves who fought for the British in the American Civil War and were rewarded with land in Trinidad, British protectorate, and settled in what was known as the Companies. I want this story to emerge as we break barriers and boxes; and defy simple definitions of identity. It leads to a greater open discussion on Humanity as a way to bridge the world.
The first hookup I dream for is for Oprah to help me make a Trinidad and Tobago project, called MERIKIN, part of the Smithsonian plan for a National Black Heritage Museum, and for the Smithsonian to integrate the Trinidad MERIKIN Project into their overall Smithsonian Catalog in celebration of the International Year of African Heritage.
Because of my prolific writing, of various genres:
1. EthnoHerstoriography:
a. “From Margin to Center” published paper circulating in journals and net
b. “Ant Bites” a novel I attempted that really is a film script. And a novel ingenious one at that: it is in the form of Latin American writers who write in short snippets, and the pieces may or may not represent a whole; It was my attempt at fiction but being so serious minded, all that emerged were my experiences returning to Trinidad and Tobago after thirty two years outside.
2. My 44 Volumes of Journals
3. My Nine Volumes of Poetry
4. My two essays published in edited volumes in 2010: one on Obama, the other on International Literacy/.Illiteracy
5. My blogs written for UNPost.org
6. MY personal blog
The second Hook Up I wish for is to be set up with One, an Agent;’ and Two, a Major International Publishing House multi book and product deal, in several genres:
Inspirational Blank Journals utilizing my sayings and quotes, and photography,
my Memoir,
Books of Poetry,
Recipe Books, (I have at least two), and
Series of Personal Life Journals..
“Ant Bites” is an n process collection. Each chapter tells of a separate personal interaction or story that illustrates the quality, tenor and challenge or beauty of life in the Tropics, Caribbean, of a Black mixed Heritage Woman. I got to over one hundred pages and realized it is more a film script than anything else, and this film would blow the industry and people’s minds, internationally, for we rarely ever if never see black women be so complex, so free, so liberated, so unmitigated, so accomplished and dynamic: In terms of culture, travel, and experiences.
The Third HookUp I dream is for Ant Bites to be taken up by a producer, Executive Producer (Oprah), and made into the wonderful film it is waiting to be; and it be shown all across the globe and encouraged other women of color to write their stories, make their imagery of self, country and community; a way for women to reclaim and form their experiences
I believe I am a brand waiting to happen. My first entrepreneurial effort is ArtPost Trinidad © ® (2010) which is an art based content and communications company where I will use my art pieces, or create products for clients like greeting cards, calendars, journals, notebooks, bookmarks, mugs and other paraphernalia.
I currently work as an International Consultant with the Government of Trinidad and Tobago, Ministry of Labour and Enterpise Development, writing an Entrepreneurial Program for Women. I also do this work personally, where I coach women in Enterprise Development and Strategic Mapping…
The Fourth Hook Up I dream of is to be connected to a RainMaker who will help me develop my entrepreneurial dreams and ideas:
1. ArtPost Trinidad
2. Cultural Entrepreneurship which is an internet based website where all cultural, creative and artistic work of Trinidad and Tobago or the Caribbean can be marketed, sold and supported;
3. Cultural Entrepreneurship a Build Fellow Entity where independent entrepreneurs, and conscious creatives can have work space, spa, business center from which to build, create and operate their enterprises
4. My Retreat/.Spa/ Restaurant
5. My Organic Farm/Fishery and Cocoa Estate
Ideas 2. And 3. Above, I have held since 2004, when I petitioned the biggest private conglomerate in my country to fund the idea. He turned out to be another Bernie Madoff…of the Caribbean; Lawrence Duprey.
When I returned to Trinidad in 2003, my plans were always to live in the ‘bush’ and have my organic farm.
These ideas and dreams are not new. They have been fostered and held, morphed and carried for decades/. My dream to be an international published writer came years after I had been writing for a long time, and largely after Terry MacMillan blew up in the national consciousness…it was then I saw, one’s writing that has been labored over long and hard, can indeed bring the bounty.
For me, my thinking is, these are treasures, skills and talents I am sitting on, like a duck looking for a golden egg, not realizing, she has been hatching them all along.. I am merely seeking to do as the bible illustrates: we are poor for our inability to see our own talents..; and to make use of them.
The Fifth Hook Up I Dream for is with Oprah directly and through her media empire:
1. To have my own show on OWN…
2. To have my own radio show on Oprah Sirius
a. Both Shows will platform International Focus; An Integration of the Human Experience
b. The Issue of Women’s Lives and Issues across the Globe; and
I am Maven
Requested Hookups:
1. To connect with Smithsonian and History Agencies and Academic Departments to make the MERIKIN National Heritage Trinidad Project manifest and materialize for the Year of International African Heritage ~ We are Americans in the Caribbean; We are Africans in the Americas; We are Mixed Heritage of the World (I am Venezuelan CocoPayol, African, Chinese, Native Indian, European White)
2. Connection with a Writing Agent to advance my writing/publishing life
3. Connection with a Publishing House for several book and project Deals – to make public my treasure trove of writings
4. Connection with a Director, Executive Producer to make Ant Bites a film
5. Connection with a Rainmaker to make and emerge my brand: Social Entrepreneurship and Conscious Creative
6. Connection with Oprah for a show on OWN
7. Connection with Oprah for a radio Show on Sirius
Thank you!! For years of Inspiration, Teaching and Enlightenment!!
