ting seen in the gutter

stepping out the gate, dancing on my mind, past the wonder-of-the-world grown from solitary small bush to bushes and tree+branches winding horizontally through other foliage to colonise every corner of the yard, sneaking though the ixora, creeping between citrus, passing by the pawpaw to fight up with thyme harbouring similar imperial designs, crisscrossing the steps in a trail of leaves sure to sprout all the way to the gutter with its mix of old+new inventory glinting in waning sunlight at the side of the road...1 empty plastic sweetdrink bottle, cut open to serve new purpose in its 2nd life as a piper's gear, 1watch-face, no back, hanging on to half of 1strap of what had been its band, 1 small tv, smashed, 3wonder-of-the-world leaves topped by a dinnermint wrapper, 1wheel, bent, missing spokes, and 2 bicycle-chain segments, dark with grease but dry in this season where gutters see more rubbish than rainwater, 1 hi-lo bag ripped open by dog or fowl to spill the neighbour's old kfc boxes, used pampers and other garbage into our consciousness, and i recall the de la soul lyric "...neighbourhoods is just 'hoods 'cause nobody ain't neighbours no more...", greet everybody i pass en route to the maxi, noticing how many don't respond...
so sometimes i worry i do too much linking and not enough writing, but i just now scroll all the way down the mainpage and am pleased to find it seeming not so. good. so i can link up. it have plenty tings of interest that i wanna be able to find again and anybody actually reading here might too:
especially this piece, full of photos of frida kahlo and her amazing work+wardrobe; major inspiration...
speaking of work i admire, this take on the function of the actor in the performance of shakespeare as the completer of the piece, the solution to the puzzle, articulates so well something my instincts have always told me, something frustratingly missing from the production of midsummer i saw the other night...
and about work i doh admire, i eh planning to see the tyler perry flick, but the perspective of this piece worth the read whether you see it or not.
sunity maharaj mighta say this weeks ago, but what she say about what constitutes politics and trini non/engagment with it is worth a reread and something i need to be able to find again when i writing mlf ting; and in the wake of recent events, read it again even if you already did.
this, i admit i eh fact-check, but it was such promising news about sustainable energy potentials, i had to share...big-up portugal!
and more good news before i wrap, somebody else articulating ideas i pushing long time- i relatively lucky to be the kinna woman i am, and always feel bad for the less sexually-fortunate, so for the benefit of the whole world, lewwe spread the word so everybody finally gets the memo that the orgasm gap is fixable and doh hadda exist- lewwe all feel good...
and on that note, look dessert for anybody who appreciates men-in-underwear as much as i do, 5photos too hot for fasbook [so they say]...enjoy...
walk good.

holi easter basket

fitting that my easter sunday self-sacrifice is abeer. this year, family traditions i value trump my deep desire to be @holi festivities, and instead i lime@mayaro with ma, clements, da costas, and the usual suspects. the extended family camping on the beach whole easter weekend happening every year without fail over 30years, children born+grow big enough to bring their own, (ex)husbands, boyfriends, girlfriends, pardners of teenagers+parents alike pass through, and since i old enough to have a choice, once i in the country i go for whichever portion ma going, no matter what, which this year, conflict with phagwa. but lewwe be real, easter@beach with the family, i eh exactly complaining; abeer redemption next year...plus, after all these years camp get fancy enough to have phone+internet+ting, so in the nationwide blackout good friday, camp had current when nobody else did.
strange to drive the entire manzanilla stretch and see no buffalypso, no cows, not even a horse, just 1 rambunctious (they have any other kind?) roadside goat and a brief smell that suggested 4legged+tasty but never visually materialise, so i cyah say for sure.strange too, unbeaten bobolees in grande easter sunday; 1 for real, still tied to the wooden t+tec post almost looking pleased with his expressionless self; the other, when we get close, turn out to be a girl in white pants standing so still+purposeless on the pavement she seem more lifeless than the bobolee.
in other strange developments, when we pass 1st time, alla we comment on the graduation to fiesta-party-rental-size tents by indian bay, until we pass back and realise is a party in truth, because they now joined by a big-arse bouncy-castle-style waterslide, set up right there where the river meet the sea- madness. and because every action have equal+opposite reaction, later i spot a freshly-painted government-issue fire hydrant lying in somebody yard in cumuto, nowhere near anything looking like the pipe with extreme water pressure i want to assume blow the hydrant off its installed spot...somebody please tell me they eh t'iefing fire hydrants for sport now...
in other news, man like mark lyndersay real know how to intrigue me; he's 1 of very few who can find the random angle on situations i not particularly interested in, that will make me want to click the link, read, and be glad i did, and love him a little more every time for giving me what i glad to learn but wouldn't find without him...and speaking of mark lyndersay, i starting to feel i hadda put him on my shortlist of big-brains-crushes, with the sexy neil degrasse tyson, who i totally doh need 14 more reasons to love, but he's just that fabulous...and speaking of physics-coolness, check out this scale of the universe infographic(?) [even if they eh calling it that, it real informative+graphic, in all the helpful ways].
in less-happy-but-tings-i-wish-people-realise news, why feminism isn't sexist by definition, and other clarity...which i think is a good intro to what below (better as it develops, promise; watch all)
and this last is about pure joy; this youth a delight to watch, reminds me why i love ballet even if it might not be the dance-language i communicate best in...  
walk good.