Women Re-shaping the World!

It is so much easier to give second chances to others than it is to give second chances to ourselves!

 The link below takes  you to a YouTube video where you can see Sherry-Anny Jones recite her poem "Autism Speaks-LISTEN".  She is a young Vincentian mother who is raising a handsome little boy who has autism.

 A poem by Vincentian poet Peggy Carr


COUNTRY TALK

I first named this "Best First" but I really wanted to name it "Vagina First" so I did.

I was just listening to my roomie's tales of the week and in the midst of one of her stories about girls in short skirts she goes; " Why would you introduce yourself vagina first; your vagina should be the last thing people meet about you". Veronique Bailey you crack me up sometimes you know!!

I was born in St Vincent and the Grenadines and when it comes to thinking of myself on an 'international' level I would always affirm I am a Caribbean Woman.

There are some whose search for an identity takes them back to 'Africa' for me

In St. Vincent and the Grenadines there is an old saying "damn fool ah talk but nah damn fool ah listen".  For those of you who might not understand our local dialect it is basically saying 'A fool is talking but the person listening isn't a fool as well'.

Sometimes we spend too much time asking "what if".  What if I do, what if I don't, what if I did say that,what if I hadn't said that. So many what ifs confuse us that for the most part we remain immobile...and of course that is followed by another what if. 

Sometimes you stop and realize that you have walked so far you can no longer see the point that you started from; but your journey isn't over because the road still stretches before you. 

So every now and then I get an email from someone on Facebook that begins : "Hi Sexy" or "Hi  beautiful".

It is so much easier to say I leave past hurts in the past than to actually do so.

We are all humans and it is possible to forgive someone for almost anything but it is near impossible to forget the actual thing itself.  You can forget someone stealing your pencil in primary school but it is not that easy to forget someone stealing the love of your life.

Once time has passed that is it; it is no more.  You will only make it worse if you sit around and build up anger because a relationship/friendship has gone sour.  I always say once you have given it your all then so be it; you've done good.  Life is like that you will meet people who are worth your time and people who aren't.  It is a far better thing to recognize when someone isn't and move on to someone who might be.  Yes indeed it is all about taking chances.  In the pursuit of happiness nothing gets placed in your lap.
 

It's amazing how everyone seems to know what will make you happy, isn't it?

You need a bigger house, come on you can't actually be comfortable in that three bedroom house.  And your car is that really the best you can do, I am sure you can find something flashier.  Let me not even talk about the shoe you are wearing it is probably the ugliest shoe I have ever seen.

by Ntozake Shange

somebody almost walked off wid alla my stuff
not my poems or a dance i gave up in the street
but somebody almost walked off wid alla my stuff
like a kleptomaniac workin hard & forgettin while stealin
this is mine/this aint yr stuff/

Happy Mother's Day that is all I have to say
To all the Mom's both near and far ;
Who give unconditional love every day!

Growing up a friend said to me once "you are just like your mother" and I remember being really upset but now a much older and a little wiser I really like when people say that. 

Often there are days when we feel as though we have come to a point of no return. Where all of life's demands come at once.  Tasks are many but time speeds on, we can only do so much in any one day.  Plan your time wisely!

My Uncle once said to me "Dri generalize before you specialize". 

It is something that I have always stuck with and it is something that I share with young girls all the time, because at the time I was youngER lol and I guess it was his way of warning me about rushing into a relationship that was beyond my years.

Peggy Carr is a Vincentian mother/poet/media worker/author who lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan.

The general concept here is that an ancestor comes back from the past and laments the loss of cultural traditions and values in the Caribbean. The "jumbie" pleads for a return to good old Caribbean roots and values.


LONG TALK
(from a Vincy jumbie)
By Peggy Carr