tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22112793.post182719198893084402..comments2023-09-24T03:18:15.557-04:00Comments on Guanaguanare: the laughing gull: Sing For The Land [Song]Guanaguanarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16633889363662650322noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22112793.post-77186193984400719762010-07-10T17:43:56.757-04:002010-07-10T17:43:56.757-04:00Thanks for visiting Louis, and for your comment. A...Thanks for visiting Louis, and for your comment. Apologies for the delay with this reply. I've been taking a break and I feel much better as a result. I tend to get too emotionally involved in certain matters and I really have to learn how to keep my distance. About that other site - <a href="http://guacaradreamtime.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">Guacara Dreamtime</a>, I have reopened it and I hope to maintain the original focus. That blog was meant to focus on Trinbagonian First Nations but I started including a wider range of topics. Many of those posts have already been transferred to a new blog and I hope to open that soon. I will let you know when. Even if it is not open, I continue to write. Have you ever visited <a href="http://www.trinidadandtobagonews.com/blog/" rel="nofollow">"Trinidad and Tobago News Blog"?</a> I find that a very useful site. Also Jai Parasram's <a href="http://jyoticommunication.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">"Jyoti Communication"</a> is a really consistent collector of news items relating to Trinbago. Apart from this, I found your idea for that blog very interesting. Please tell me more.<br /><br />Your family is just like mine, Louis. People have tried over the years to pin us down and it is a source of laughter for us. We know a great deal about our ancestry but only four generations back. We only know a little about their situations before they arrived in Trinbago. There is a lot that we don't know and will never know, since the ancestors who had less material wealth never had the official records and journal entries, the photos and photos of painted portraits that were handed down to us by others. For a fact there are seven ethnicities from nine countries but because of the gaps in the tree we are always proud to add, "And that's just the ones we know about!" <br /><br />Louis, when I think about how little time it took for them to mix up the callaloo that we are today, I can only conclude that our ancestors must have had open hearts and really twinkly eyes. LOL <br />Blessings to you and yours!Guanaguanarehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16633889363662650322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22112793.post-72695784999704304152010-07-07T03:40:33.110-04:002010-07-07T03:40:33.110-04:00Reading your response to wsteffie's comments o...Reading your response to wsteffie's comments on your post "Jahaji Bhai" prompts me to add these two remarks:<br /><br />What is or was the url of your other blog to which you referred? For whatever reason I was unaware of it yet it is precisely the reason I came across this blog in the first place. I was eagerly and frustratedly searching, as an expat, for a source of significant information and intelligent analysis of current affairs in Trinidad and Tobago. I had tried unsuccessfully to get together some expats to establish a blog about Trinidad and Tobago which would combine insights from within and without our country to fill what I saw as a void that needed to be filled. You can bet I would have been the fourth Trinbagonian avidly following your blog if I had had the good sense to find it. I can understand the pain and frustration that led you to suspend it, but I hope you resume it.<br /><br />My second remark addresses the issue of race. The enlightened concept of the oneness of the human race and the adoption of better terminology associated with race that you envision may occur sooner than you think, notwithstanding the attempts of the far right to legislate us back into feudal times. The number of "interracial" families is growing very rapidly. The "mixtures" are much more complex and varied than the old "black and white". There are many families composed of three, four, five different ethnic backgrounds. If bigots have a hard time now trying to determine if a person is black or white or what degree of which, and how to stereotype such persons, they are going to go absolutely crazy when they have to figure out just two generations of families like mine. And we have lots of company.louishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02724442924909561263noreply@blogger.com