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Black Survivors ~ Equal Rights & Justice

12/9/2019

Illustration By Adrian Hayles of actress / model Stacey McKenzie

Systemically targeted

Not playing the blame game, just pointing out what is directly in your faces. If I can plainly see this, because they aren’t trying to hide it... it has never been any different... there is an agreed upon systemic abuse of the youth in our society

Money away from social programs to money for the police by the same premiere of Ontario

Our children are now attacking our children

And we turn blind eyes because we chose to

Parents of children 12 – 14 – 17 – 20 years old, are terrified daily / nightly, of other people’s children attacking them and at times taking their life

This is the message that these children are sharing obviously because this is what is being manifested right now. They are following blindly because we don’t have another effective message to guide them

Us lazy parents now need to parent

“We need protection from our own children” is what we all saying at times and the police have a program in place to facilitate just this

Watch certain children’s behavior during high school, give them enough charges, create a long standing relationship with these youths, who are now easily expendable in the eyes of the law and the public perception, this media, driven madness, rinse and repeat

14 – 17 year olds already have rap sheets

At the beck and call of this system for the rest of their lives

“They” have succeeded in turning us against our children and our children against us, very seamlessly

“Those animals” are someone else’s children so black people differentiate among ourselves, not realizing that we are criminalizing ALL black children. EVERYONE!!!

Forget about black children... These are helpless human children that we can give some information/s about the road ahead. It’s like as adults, we can’t wait to have the younger generation fail more than we did

I believe that they are smarter than us

They have us, plus their ancestors... they are better than us

We need their innocent eyes and souls... we must learn to trust them... they have seen more than you through you and your ancestors on both sides of mom and dad in spiritual time

Yes, experience is also HIGHLY necessary

We NEED our elderly... We need them guiding us as age creeps up and how to travel that journey... to teach a necessary wisdom that they have to impart to us because they were given that message, specifically for us

Protect your elderly

Sounds like confusion to me too yet it “feels” right to me

BUT WE MUST HAVE BALANCE

Yet no balance is forthcoming as the system seemingly is too far in motion for there to ever be a change

Corruption is easily paid for

At any price, full control is worth it

Yet maybe all I am capable of doing, is articulating the thought/s; as usual, a query to the universe. Maybe someone else has the solution to this and other questions, trying to minimize the constant abuse

Shining a light does nothing when it is the police... a situation directly instituted to do exactly what is happening now

No one doesn’t not know

We just recognize the futility of that information

It is also clear that if there are any collective, constructive moves to elevate the black community is lead with aggression from said system. It is the programming. The attacks on the so called Black Panther movement proves the point

Black Panther was probably chosen to intimidate “whitey”, focussing on militant behavior, to force equally rights and justice

It is viewed as militant to not think one self inferior to any other one

I’m not preaching or speaking militancy, I hope that I am affecting a thought process to elevate no matter the physical or spiritual abuses thrown at the process by said system

We have clearly seen the process played out. There are memorable speeches by Haile Selassie I, Marcus Garvey, Dr. King, Malcolm, Patrice, Rev. Farrakhan, Marley, Tosh, preaching equality and love, with busts and statues around the globe yet the message/s of pride in self through self reliance are still repeatable today

We are willing passengers in this ruse because any sort of change to it seems futile

Yet they all speak the same message

Self

The message

Self

It is an individual one

They are speaking to me

Just me... I don’t always quote their words, but I try to do how / what they do

The responsibility of this is self

That is their message I believe

We are forced to evolve beyond the systemic brutality

I ask questions

I shone my light

I hope the right solution is taking that light and passing it on

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Cynicism

12/9/2019

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Once you are burned by the right relationship, or by a series of wrong relationships, your chances of being in a successful partnership in future times is highly limited to impossible

Cynicism

Always waiting for the other shoe to drop because experience teaches that it most definitely will

You will impose said cynicism on all future and potential love interests which is akin to pouring hot liquid on said potential partner or relationship/s and expect them to not feel it burn

Doom

"You men" or "You women" won't help you to build trust

Young or old, the cynicism poisons your own soul

I know because I have lived it... I have said "you women" to my partner at the time... it is what I was taught by this time in which I live... Our problems in the relationship I made about her and her perceptions, hence "you women"

I poured venom in her soul without a second thought

I had no wisdom

Is there a solution

Most definitely

The soul connection

You start first with yourself... if your energy is dark you may not be enticing to someone with sunlight in their soul, no matter how physically attractive you may be

Work on your own sunlight

If your focus is only on your target lover, and not on self, trying to maintain an uplifting relationship is an impossible task... You tend to expect your partner to live up to your need to pacify or to entertain or to make you feel secure... None of that is their job/s

I'm fully aware that there are some truly horrific, abusive relationships that folks have experienced, so trust becomes an issue and being gun shy, or wary of the next relationship is very natural and at times, life preserving when one is coming from domestic abusive situations

No arguments there

This is a natural reaction to being burned yet taking it to the next relationship, infused with constant cynicism from the past, will automatically doom the next coupling

The solution is to heal one's own soul

Learn to love the things about you that make you shine, even if a past partner tried to stifle it / them and made you self conscious of the joyful things in you

Create your own shine

Love you

Loving a partner is about the joy you feel inside whether you are with your partner or not... the love is transcendant... a love high

A love high

A higher love

Cynicism

I won't allow it to take my love

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Colonialism & Reggae

12/5/2019

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As usual I get a quick reminder from Donna Makeda that it is “story time”

I have written a lot of words over the years of doing this and do repeat myself at times, sometimes because I forget what was said in my last piece and at times because I believe some things need repeating

This is one of those times to repeat a message

I have made a few changes to suit this time yet the info below was written in 2014 and submitted to ReggaeXclusive

I apprecilove those who take the time to read I writing
~
co·lo·ni·al·ism
noun
1.
the control or governing influence of a nation over a dependent country, territory, or people.
2.
the system or policy by which a nation maintains or advocates such control or influence.
3.
the state or condition of being colonial.
4.
an idea, custom, or practice peculiar to a colony.

~

Knowing one’s role within said colony may aid in finding solutions to the issues that seem insurmountable to date. The ‘colony’ is one of hierarchy where there are ‘royals’ to be bowed down to and reggae has no place for bowing to any human being or false idols for that matter

The essence of revolution is a breaking away from the normality of “the system” whether physical or mental. We are all members of the colony yet totally unaware of our roles as the slaves to the system. We all think if we work just hard enough or our luck turns we are out of the rat race. An effective illusion

In order to maintain subservience we are given a myriad of distractions which are actually a series of stimuli that keep our eyes downward never allowing us to truly look up to avoid the obstacles, so always forced into a reactive state, constantly falling from one chaotic moment into the next. Short of rent this month constantly facing eviction notices, payday loan habit that does not really work because you still have the same amount of money, need a visit to the clinic for a possible std, driving a vehicle without insurance for a month or two because public transportation can’t get you to your job and you have a family of five with 3 children under the age of ten years old, bill collectors calling constantly, going through separation / divorce with no aid from deadbeat husband, vindictive mummy keeping children away from an invested father, money earned does not meet bills to be paid, ridiculed for being different, human rights violations in all countries on the planet, global warming, rising unemployment, lonely singles targeted by a need to online dating, the rising oceans, occupy Toronto, occupy LA, occupy NY, racism, sexism, murder rate, revenue Canada, the IRS, federal / provincial elections, alcoholic, drug abuse, parent teacher meetings, hockey / soccer eight days per week, the IMF, the World Bank, lost millions / thousands in the stock market crash, eight hundred thousand dead in Rwanda in the space of one month, 911, Al-Queda, Afghanistan, North Korea, Pakistan, Iran, The Eagle, The Tiger, The Bear, teen suicide based on poor self esteem, child abuse, domestic abuse, riots in China... There are hundreds of issues that are quite unique to many folks that are not mentioned here and at times we all face all of the above and more, all at the same time

“Governing influence and keeping one dependent”

Distractions... Life

The ‘colony’ is led by buckingham palace and everyone else falls into designated slots below the ‘royals’, each more important than the next one beneath it. It is believed that in this way, it gives the lower tiered folks a goal to shoot for in order to achieve a higher standing. So we work in jobs that barely cover the bills, create side businesses, work two or three jobs, try to save and invest in a home or rrsps, and yet never seem to be able to leave the treadmill as there is always a crisis that eats away at the savings. So every Wednesday and Saturday we spend a few ducats on lottery tickets HOPING for the miracle! One good hit and we are right out of our issues! And the lottery and gaming commissions make billions because we remain dependent

Another great illusion {I bought lottery tickets in the past too}

The “system” of the colony is a powerful one as it allows its fiscally more viable members to revel in what they have with only sympathy / empathy to offer to the have-nots, believing that it is their right to be ‘better’

We are kept dependent on this corrupt system. They maintain control creating that dependency

The ‘colony’ isn’t a place of upliftment. It is a sweat shop for the 99%

Jazz, the Blues, hip-hop, reggae are the ‘news sources’ to those who do not live in that mental or physical ghetto. With artists like Marley, Tosh, Spear and Culture who painted vivid musical images of knowledge, pain, poverty, love, upliftment and hope, reggae infiltrated into the psyche of many around the globe hence the continued growth of a fan base for this genre

The objective is to keep us dependent. By definition, it does what it does! Pretty redundant couple of sentences here yet even within that, we all get up and follow this “system” the very next second. Yes we are all victims

This is how I learn to truly apprecilove what reggae music does for me. I am grateful for the energy reggae music provides for me and billions of others around this planet. As with the above verbiage, reggae identifies the issues in communities, towns, governments and countries, then touch on relationship issues, spiritual reggae tunes tend to set us just right, then there is the defiance to said system hence the genre, though quite popular gets no airplay on mainstream radio and the privileged few never wonder why – or more accurately – never crosses their minds why reggae isn’t on radio because the hierarchy of the ‘colony’ insists on reggae “knowing its place’ at the bottom of the heap like the people who invented it. Many in the dancehall speak / rhyme just as powerfully for those who seek a differentiation yet it is all REGGAE to me

The thing is, reggae does not care! It keeps blazing and inspiring love, thought and camaraderie from nation to nation. This powerful music comes from a black nation and is appreciloved by all nations and throughout our anger, pain and resentment, the genre seems to speak truth yet search for a solution/s for “equal rights and justice” four words that don’t work well within the ‘colony’

The colony’s system of distraction to create dependence is well orchestrated while the genre of reggae pushes the conscience of a planet towards equal rights and justice

Yes I, “Reggae for Life”

JuLion
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CRW Newsletter ~ December 2019 ~ Buju, Exco, Akae Beka R.I.P.

12/3/2019

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Buju Banton

Another year of reggae from I n I perspective in this 2019

The thing that impacted me most was Buju coming out of jail. Reggae music needed his insight as well as his conscious voice and truly a change in the VIBE of the culture

Reggae seemed to become a very pasteurized vibe so the Gargamel was needed to bring that old skool, ghetto truth with an emphasis on the bass and a feel and need to jump when his music is played

This is I personal opinion

“Country for sale” is a track that I am extremely grateful for based on Jamaican government officials selling out the country since Independence, 6th August 1962

It isn’t like the native Jamaicans can do one single thing about lost resources for decades but to hear an artist not only mention it yet make an iconic tune, gives some an opportunity to hear those words and possibly start that thought process in the people

Here are some things synonymous with Jamaica that I don’t believe is owned by the country, nor do the people benefit a dime from it
Alcan & Reynolds bauxite, the beaches, the hotels, Red Stripe beer, Blue Mountain Coffee, Appleton Rum, J. Wray & Nephew rum, highways built by China, GANJA, Reggae Music and I am sure there are a few more resources being taken

The Gargamel is / was needed

“Steppa”

An effective tune speaking to gun violence in Jamaica, Africa, Canada within the black communities

Nuff man mek gun tunes, yet this one resonates like no other

Blessings Buju...

Exco Levi ~ Wah Gwaan

Five time Juno Award winner, released a big tune this year. One day listening to our local urban station, G98.7FM this song came on and I immediately started skanking

Big love to Exco for maintaining levels of excellence within the reggae fraternity, consistently, year after year

Vaughn Benjamin ~ Akae Beka ~ Midnite ~ R.I.P.

Historian, scholar, supremely versed with the history and nuances of the Bible, RasTafari, humble soul, passed away this year

The world was elevated with his life and lyrics and still so even with his passing

Vaughn Benjamin is a true gift to this planet

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Sex is Spirituality

11/8/2019

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Art by Azerine De Luca www.azerinedeluca.com

Sex is a spiritual thing

I have degrees in nothing

By most standards, I know nothing

I just feel

I write from feel so it’s ok if you don’t feel what I feel

I have had a few conversations over the years and some of the things I know now, I would like / want to tell to my younger self

The issues surrounding sex biblically, morally and spiritually were not conversations I had at a younger stage in my / our lives

It has always been portrayed as a physical thing yet as I have matured, I have come to believe it as a spiritual thing. It is why so many of us are confused in relationships, focused on the physical, when it is actually the soul that is communicating during sex

We have been raised for it to be a physical thing and it is the reason for all of our confusion and hurts over the years, seeking a situation that is unattainable because we are running a different race, ie; Analogy: most are preparing for a twenty six mile marathon by training for a one hundred metre sprint race

There will forever be disappointment in performance and satisfaction because of our mindset / s

Even in a casual encounter, sex is spiritual

One MUST connect spiritually with one’s spouse, partner, one night stand, if one is seeking any type of fulfillment {some seek different things that I don’t ovastand so I can’t speak on them}

I have been in relationships where our spiritual connections were focused on different paths

I was horny, she was horny and we did the thing

Then it got awkward

I needed to get my clothes on and leave

Our “like” for each other changed

Yes that has happened to me a ‘couple’ of times

I realized over the years, that I have never really thought of the spiritual connection because I was too busy thinking about the physical satisfaction that I was craving

I believed that the sex was the end and ultimate goal, so when we got done with that, I found that I had nothing

Time to leave

Feeling awkward

Must run

This also isn’t news

The Kama Sutra as well as other philosophies focus on the spiritual connected to the physical for that mind blowing sex many of us seem to crave yet one does not need to study the Kama Sutra to have fulfilling encounters with other humans

Many of us wonder where all of the good men got to or good women got to

Everyone is still here

We are preparing for the wrong race / s, with major confusion, led by advertising, movies, trends, clothing, social media and a million other distractions

All focused on the physical

Touch my soul

I wish someone told me this in my younger years

I like everyone else was led down the physical path

A sexual ly spiritual path leads to way less hurt because we touch deeper inside and find more honesty and truth

Less ego

Less need for ownership

You ever notice that some relationships end in hate while on the other hand one can have amicable relationships with some of your other exes?

There is no blame to either party

Their spiritual paths were never aligned

Even deeply in love, the spiritual connect may be totally awry, so when the relationship goes south, there is no connect, and is then replaced with anger and resentment

Yin and Yang

Masculine and Feminine in both

Spiritual energies

This my truth as I feel it

I have no doctorate in anything so read this with your own sense of skepticism or relate to it or not

I have had this conversation with a few folks and so it created another piece for the blog

It may be a solution or maybe just the beginning of a conversation and a sharing of opinions... or not

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Living In Bigotry

9/16/2019

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I'm grateful for my Canadian life as well as my Jamaican heritage

I have so much pride in both things

Whenever I discuss corrupt JA governments and racist Canadian governments is definitely a result of this colonial life that we are forced to share

For the most part, even with the increase in gun violence, I feel relatively safe on the streets, night or day in this country

Daycare, medical care, technology, a mostly respectful society and so much more makes Canada a beautiful home

A place I do feel grateful to reside

Loving many things about my two homes should not stop us from seeing the things that cause the unpleasantness of racism and gun crime and not saying anything just because things are otherwise great

I love many things in Canada

I am proud of many things Canadian

I speak from a recipient of daily racist overtones and undertones

Daily

It feels like an instinctive racist agenda, which many won't deny yet there is a vibe that I need to accept it... we all do

"It's just the way it is"

Nah

Not accepting shit

As an immigrant, observing my 43 years now, it seems like white Canada needs to murder Native humans

This is clear to me

It can only be stopped by white Canadians

The Native humans would love to stop it all but they have been thoroughly abused by white european defendants for decades and have probably run out of solutions for a peaceful existence that could be conveyed to the euro descendant

With control of the media, the "Native Canadian" are lazy, drunk, drug abusers. They are Native yet they are not Canadian...

They are Original people

And they are a spiritual guide on this planet yet the euro Canadian as well as American still abuse them since 1492 going forward

The european decent people spent $92 million to create a report, admitting to themselves that they genocide Native humans this 2019

$92 million

This much money to tell me what we all already know

Gotta love these people

$92 million and not a single name of one of the perpetrators murdering these folks

Fifteen decades of abuse, $92 million and not one name?

The parade for Bianca that I spoke of me not being satisfied with how Donovan Bailey is a small conversation but one in thousands diminished by the society in which I reside

Two mornings ago, I was walking towards King Street, as a streetcar pulled off the stop and some random, old white dude gave me the finger... I of course returned the greeting. Forty three years ago it would have incensed me, and when I repeated it to friends, we bust out laughing because it has been thus from then till now

My goal isn't about nit picking just for the hell of it but more to show clearly a systemic, constant and consistent racist like I and others are expected to accept. If it pisses you off, get off my page

I don't have to love Canada less to speak the truths that I live

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Pum Pum Blocking

9/1/2019

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So I have heard from a few sistrins of mine about the intense stares that they receive from dudes

Scenario #1 is by total strangers

Scenario #2 is by idrins within the circle for several years going to several events together to leer at sistrins they have also known for years

Let us be clear, I am neither a saint nor trying to convert based on I n I beliefs yet if it gave brothers a pause to think, it should be worth a try

Maybe it is a place for discussion

Maybe we educate our sons and daughters to some concepts

Part of why I write this is to protect my sistrin, my daughters and daughters of my friends from the ogling

I have leered at a couple of ladies in my time, yet it has usually been with someone I am intimate with, who responds favorably. If she responds with a cold shoulder or disinterest, I quickly choose another place to stare... This one is not for me. I don't keep staring when there is obviously no interest in I n I advances

What do we do?

It's been this way from ever

When I hear sistrins mention that they have anxiety thinking about going to events and last minute to decide against going is centuries old but I'm truly trying to take that in

Anxiety from being stared at by your bredrins

As a man, I have no such thought or reason to think of being ogled as I don't feel threatened

I think that's it

If the advance is unwanted yet continuous, it tends to feel like a threat

The threat that accompanies the leer / ogle

I have ladies in I n I circle that I would definitely fancy a liaison with yet unwanted staring does not get one closer to the punny

It has the opposite effect actually

For some of the brothers who see what I'm seeing, you can aid your sistrins with "pum pum blocking"

What my sistrins point out is that the majority of the ogling usual stays on their fronts

If your sistrin gives you the eye like, "can you come and stand with me" eye, go over to her and stand directly in the line of sight of the ogler

He don't want to see no guy, especially a crusty one like me

It also let's your ogling idrin know seh you do not ascribe to the ogle mentality

It won't change a centuries long accepted habit yet I felt like saying something anyway

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Who is we?

8/20/2019

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I was talking to younger, fellow Jamaican about some of the standard shortcomings of "our" people as it pertains to hindering our growth in Jamaica as well as here in Canada and I mentioned that we have so many psychological hurdles to overcome in order to achieve successes in growing businesses and generational wealth

This young idrin asked intelligently, "who is 'we' Julian?"

"Who is we?"

The scope and depth of this question is truly far reaching as it pertains to internal obstacles

Obstacles ingrained though colonial abuses for centuries, now deeply entrenched in the psyche of many Jamaicans and not everyone is on your team

We must firstly start with the tribalism horseshit two party system, the PNP and the JLP and how detrimental that distraction has been to the growth of Jamaica

Bere fuckery!!!

Pitting Jamaicans against Jamaicans in a useful tactic, passing blame from one party to the next and have the gullible sheep focus on the idiotic argument as opposed to the well being of themselves our of the country

Kill for the party

Fellow Jamaicans kill each other for party politricks

A famous saying by a Native elder is "the left wing and the right wing are a part of the same bird", flying in the same direction. Naive residents, for years, have put their faith in corrupt leadership with no end in sight

There is no "we" when it comes to the support of one party or the next

There is no we in this colonial struggle of the haves versus the have nots

We create enough divisions so we have no common ground to improvement because individual goals are totally different

Who is we?

We are humans

Humans defending humans

Tribalism is idiotic at best

I listen to no rules by those who insist on rules and laws

We must think for self and beyond tribalism

Humans

We are humans

There are humans in every culture and race

There are demons in every culture and race

I will not defend a black or white demon

They are not me

They are not my "we"

The focus must be shifted from race or politics or gender and focus on humans

Humans are connected globally

So are demons

Identify whom you speak to as well as speak for

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Cockpit Country ~ Fresh Water ~ Bauxite Mining

7/31/2019

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Fresh water

Mni Wiconi

Water is Life

Conspiracy theories yet here we are

They don’t care about the bauxite

They are deliberately destroying fresh water globally

Let’s see who needs to wake up today and to focus on the issue at hand

I have blatantly blasted Jamaican leadership, politicians, prime ministers and the wannabe “elite” as corrupt, deceitful humans, put in place to rape their own Jamaican people

They are

Some do the job gleefully as well

Yet, truth be told, The Corporation willingly murders whoever doesn’t go along with their needs so there will always be another Judas aka Black Colonizer to sell out their own

This dates as far back as treaties made with England with The Maroons, who traded freedom to be bounty hunter and killers of runaway slaves

The Maroons murdered black people on the behest of their English masters

The babylonian has always been able to bribe black people to kill black people

Now they say they want to mine bauxite

Really?

Water far more valuable than bauxite

So then why destroy the water table?

Great question

I don’t care why

Andrew Holness has zero power

If he doesn’t do this, they get themselves another house nigga to get the job done

Colonialism

Yet dis yah water table a go get protected one way or another. There are enough Jamaicans on this case. We will push them back by the hook or the crook

Memba mi tell yu

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Jojo Bennett of the Sattalites Tribute

7/9/2019

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Deep gratitude

That's how Jojo has always made me feel

A musician out of the famous Alpha Academy in Jamaica

A reggae pioneer in a Canada, one of the few featured on Reggae Lane

Jojo's accolades with his famous crew, The Sattalites, are too numerous to mention yet based on said contribution, he and the band are known across the Canadian continent from coast to coast

He is a selfless soldier, constantly sharing his love and knowledge with anyone interested in playing an instrument

The Canadian reggae flag standard bearer

A true hero of this reggae culture

Truly a lion to be revered... By I n I standards anyway

He will be in attendance this coming Sunday

I'm asking all reggae musicians and practitioners to pay homage by your presence and contributions

This Lion is worth our time in my estimation

All of the ex-Bamboo heads out there who partied to The Sattalites those hundreds of weekends, come show face

Jojo Bennett, the standard, Canadian, Reggae flag bearer

Many of you live all across Canada that can't make it, and wish to contribute, Jo and his daughter Jodi have etransfer set up for this event... I do ask that folks give generously at this time

The email addy is jbshyne@hotmail.com

Here is a collage of memories that I witnessed over the years