Monday 24 October 2022
Thursday 20 October 2022
Passage from Marvelous Land of Oz
Kavita's reading The Marvelous Land of Oz. While reading it out loud to me, the name of one of my favourite songs "wonders never cease" popped up. And, "comrade" popped up too! I was told recently that L. Frank Baum was very interested in politics and, one can find a Marxist analysis in his stories.
This is a video from our channel of Kavita reading the whole page: Passage from Marvelous Land of Oz. We both will be reading passages from books we are reading.
Kavita is almost 10. She has to decide how much more she wants to be on social media, have her videos on YouTube. Is this what she really wants to do?
My reading of liberal Western democracies
My reading of liberal Western democracies is that the liberal project has solved feminist/racial question by representation, inclusion and diversity crap. They recruit black brown men and women to their system and outsource the capitalist/imperial /racist project to them. System doesn't change. But optics look good.
Wednesday 19 October 2022
Olives
Tuesday 18 October 2022
You know why the EU thinks it can call itself a garden and rest of the world a jungle?
You know why the EU thinks it can call itself a garden and rest of the world a jungle? Because they know they are the barbarians who colonised us and sent us to our Middle Ages. They know when they came to loot and plunder us, we had long ago, mapped the stars, invented algebra and astronomy, built the Pyramids, and, even created egalitarian matriarchal societies long before they they learned how to even bathe! They know when they de-throned our Kings and Queens, they de-stabilised us, sending us into a chaos and subjugation. They know they enslaved us! They came to loot us, take our treasures to put in their museums. They know they destroyed our cultures, languages and heritage disconnected us ourselves. They know we had pluralistic and far more advanced ideas about gender while they are only now discovering it! What gardens? The most beautiful gardens have always existed outside of Europe. So, even now that they continue to loot us, subjugate us in their hegemony, they know they can look down at us and talk about a garden they have.
Please see: EU's Josep Borrell under fire for calling outside world a 'jungle'.
Also, read Marwan Bishara's Josep Borrell as Europe’s racist ‘gardener’.
Pencil boxes and childhood memories
Tuesday 11 October 2022
Bead rings for children
I bought these rings at an arts and crafts fair held at SMART Liberia. I bought them for Kavita and her friends.
Wednesday 5 October 2022
Tuesday 4 October 2022
Monday 3 October 2022
No short cuts here
I have not been for my evening walks in a week so it was great to be back on the Hill. It's definitely warmer now.
I was a little late to the Fitness Club meet and Coach told me to go 2 quick laps. He shouted "No short cuts here!"
I really enjoyed the comraderie and work out. See the video I made: Working hard on the top of the Hill.
Enjoy the pictures.