"What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup." – Boris Pasternak
Author: Caroline Taylor
Sleep to dream
"Native Americans, Aboriginal Australians, Taoists, Zen Buddhists, Tantric meditators, and mystics everywhere do not think of the Dreaming world as an 'un'-conscious. For these peoples, the sentient Dreaming world is the basic reality. Though marginalized and invisible to mainstream cultures today, Dreamtime has been the essential reality for people from the beginning of time." – …
Arts criticism/reviewing in Trinidad & Tobago: is there any?
Why isn't there a culture of real feedback, reviewing or criticism in T&T? It's something I've heard artists and (good) journalists & editors complain about for years: that there isn't a real core of reviewers and "critics" (however infuriating they me be) to actually give feedback on our cultural products. I can't remember the last …
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Will we rise to this battle?
"Aren't we privileged to live in a time when everything is at stake, and when our efforts make a difference in the eternal contest between the forces of light and shadow, between togetherness and division, between justice and exploitation? Oh, be joyful that you are a warrior in this great time! "Will we rise to …
‘Right’, ‘wrong’… and ‘revolutionary’
"'Right' and 'wrong' exist only between quotation marks. Every day, the world decides their definition, and every day, we have the opportunity to influence what that definition becomes. Revolutionaries don’t just burn the rules. They write new ones. In destroying the standard, they create the standard. It’s creative destruction at its finest. Will some people …
Just a link in the process
"If I am practicing spiritual poverty, which says that I own nothing, then the problems aren't mine and neither are the energy and compassion pouring through my heart to try to solve them. I am just a link in the process. If I don't take anything personally, then I can do great work without flagging. …
An old faithful: good & evil – the two wolves
One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, "My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is Good. …
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“Fare you well, my dear, I must be gone, / And leave you for a while…”
In loving memory of Aunty Astra Da Costa Fare you well, my dear, I must be gone, And leave you for a while; If I roam away I'll come back again, Though I roam ten thousand miles, my dear, Though I roam ten thousand miles. So fair thou art, my bonny lass, So deep in …
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Caroline Taylor 