Finding the Third Way

The maze at German adventure park Erlebnispark Teichland. Sometimes, life’s like that.  Copyright © 2014 by HuffPost. 
 

War, war is stupid
And people are stupid
And love means nothing
In some strange quarters 

“The War Song,” Culture Club

 

Hamas-Israeli Conflict Costly "Wake-up Call"

The Empty Beds installation in Jerusalem "symbolizes the Israeli hostages held in Gaza since October 7, when Hamas terrorists staged an assault on Israeli border communities and an outdoor music rave, killing 1400 people, wounding thousands and kidnapping hundreds."  An estimated 8000-plus Palestinians have been killed in Israel's subsequent retaliation.   Photo Copyright © 2023 by Debbie Hill/UPI.  

 

So This Is Christmas?

“Good morning from Vermont.”  Photo Copyright © 2022 by Richard D. Venne.

 

“You say you’ve been twice a wife, 
And you’re through with life, 
Oh, but honey, what the hell’s it for?” 
Stan Rogers, “45 Years”

“Even though we don’t have snow heaven knows love will come through.”  NexCyx, “We Don’t Have Snow”

 

Bajans Not So Retiring

Madder than that.  Entertainer and social commentator Eric Lewis is among the thousands of Barbadians upset over government’s suggestion to move the retirement age to 72.  Photo Copyright © 2022.

 

“These capitalists generally act harmoniously, and in concert, to fleece the people, and now, that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people’s money to settle the quarrel.”  Abraham Lincoln

When Sovereignty Is Not a Choice

Protests in Russia against Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.  Photo Copyright © 2022 by The Punch. 

 

SOME BARBADIANS have criticized our Prime Minister, Mia Amor Mottley, for condemning publicly Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine February 24.  Her comments came swiftly following the Russian president’s bombing of the country, including its capital, Kyiv.

In her statement, Mottley said in part:

Republican Reflections

My patriotic, festive TV stand, Christ Church, Barbados, December 2021.  Photo Copyright © 2022 by Robert Edison Sandiford.

 

IT’S BEEN YEARS I’ve been doing this. Started sometime around when my daughter, Aeryn, was born in 06. Fifteen years ago. Possibly longer. A more hopeful time by any current estimate, though we were about to become mired in the Great Recession (2007-2009). I would have been seeking to inspire my students, then as now.

Dear Mia, come lewwe talk…

Table talk, everything in one. Illustration Copyright © 2021 by Izora Devonish.

 

DEAR MIA,

May I call you Mia? Madam Prime Minister? PM? Not Aunty Mia. I know who my aunts are and have been, and that would confuse our relationship, or what it is supposed to be.

How to begin?

Vigilance: An Editorial for World Press Freedom Day

UNESCO poster reminds us there's still work to be done to protect freedom of speech and journalists, maybe now more than ever.  

 

RESPONSIBLE.  Accurate.  Reputable.  Truthful.  Fair.  

These terms are often associated with good journalism.  News stories we can trust in whatever medium.

Barbados a Republic: Three Times a Charm?

Prime Minister Mia Mottley speaking at the United Nations in 2019.  Barbados' first Prime Minister, Errol Barrow, declared in a December 1966 address to the UN that the newly independent country would be "friends of all, satellites of none." Photo Copyright (c) 2019. 

 

"Beware....  He'll pour a honeyed potion in your ear, and you'll wake up one day and all you'll say is 'Republic!  Republic!  Republic!'"  Gladiator

Tek de brute down—Barbados’ Nelson must fall, and how

At last!  Bajans seem up for the takedown of the statue of Lord Nelson.  Photo of ArtsEtc Editor Linda M. Deane pointing the way copyright © 2020 by Izora Devonish.

 

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