Bloganuary: Road trips on a small island don’t really work for me

Petchary's Blog

The second day’s #Bloganuary prompt is a tricky one for me. What road trip would you like to go on, the prompt asks?

I live on quite a small island. I have done a good few road trips here – but frankly, driving around Jamaica is not for the faint-hearted. The surface of our roads varies from smooth highways (mostly three-quarters empty apart from the stretch between Kingston and Portmore, which is clogged with traffic going one way in the morning and the other way in the evening); to narrow country roads that have been patched up so many times that negotiating them is a kind of obstacle course of dips and dents and lumps and bumps. And then there are those roads that the average car would really rather not be driven on at all.

The much-lauded, mostly empty North-South Highway from Kingston/Spanish Town to the North…

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What Lies Ahead?

From Behind the Pen

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Oh my goodness, here I am on another new and beautiful day. I can’t define or even quantify the way I feel right now because it’s a bit of anxiousness, and anticipation mixed with excitement. While that seems like a bizarre twist of emotions, trust me, it is. But, as I lasso in this wagon of adventure and hitch it up to my journey like a horse-drawn carriage, while the road ahead may not always be a smooth ride, it’s a ride that I am sure I will learn from, and not soon forget.

What lies ahead? No one knows for sure, not even a fortune teller peering through their crystal ball trying to predict the future. All I can tell ya is, hold on and prepare for the amazing, great unknown, like riding a wild bronco bucking the rider in a rodeo, but the rider just…

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New Years resolutions: choose life

Darcy Hitchcock

In Paul Hawken’s latest work, Regeneration, he asks us all to turn toward life, to choose actions that are regenerative rather than degenerative. A healthcare system that prioritizes health rather than just fixing symptoms. Agriculture that builds soil and provides habitat. Materials that can be easily composted. Education that teaches sustainability instead of unsustainability.

Watch this webinar about regeneration. https://connect.pachamama.org/group/314/topic/regeneration-putting-life-center-paul-hawken

Sample from https://regeneration.org/punchlist

So if you like to set goals or intentions for the coming year, make the with regeneration in mind. Check out these sample “punch lists” for ideas. https://regeneration.org/punchlist

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Already In 2022 … Guns And Death

Filosofa's Word

As I write this post, it is just after 10:00 p.m. on January 1st 2022 in the U.S. and already 99 people have lost their lives to gun violence in the first 22 hours of the new year.  One of my New Year’s hopes I wrote about in a previous post was that reasonable gun laws would be enacted by Congress before the end of the year.  Had I taken a moment to write to members of Congress after seeing today’s statistics, my letter would have started with …

Hey, you STUPID Jackass, take your head out of your arse and do something right just for once!!!

But, as our friend Keith reminds me from time to time, that isn’t the right approach. It is certainly the one I felt at that moment in time, though.  There is something wrong with a nation, a society, whose citizens demand to…

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Ann and Anna, (serial short story, Part 14): Words

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

      …  Parts 13 (Interruptions)12 (Gifts)11 (Punishment),  10 (Warmth),   9 (Found)8 (Lost)7 (Rock)6 (Believe), 5 (Naming), 4 (Home), 3 (Trust), 2 (Hope), and 1 (Nightmares) have posted on previous Sundays…

 

Part 14: Words

 

     Anna looked back at me, shaking her head ever so slightly.  Now was not the time for questions.  Apparently the state of things was more delicate than I had surmised.

 

“Well, no decisions should be made on an empty stomach.  Young Tilly has helped me to prepare dinner, and there is to be pie afterward.  Then, and not a moment before, we will find some manner of resolving this situation.”

 

The doctor’s wife had spoken, and not an objection was there to be heard.  The doctor placed the sheaf of papers upon…

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Y quien no se atreva… — Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA Derechos reservados conforme a la ley/ Copyright Y quien no se atreva, finalmente, a abrazarse a sí mismo y a la gente que le rodea, se condenará a permanecer roto durante el resto de su vida. Amar y entregar lo mejor de sí, no significa rebajarse, perder la libertad o humillarse; […]

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