Today I cleaned my library of books, pictures, music, cards, paintings and musical instruments that I have been collecting since 10 years ago. I've been working on my novel, Medinah Girl (Arabic word: City Girl) for the past four years and my collection really helped me remember places, faces and events. I remembered my days of pregnancy and how I enjoyed new and interesting people who gave me loads of advice and shared their life stories with me. SO, I'd love to share some of my present and past memoirs because you too can start from now! Collecting these musical instruments, arts even clothing kept me in touch with the world of people that I could never forget! . I understand a bit more about identity, ethnicity, culture and nurturing. Today, my husband and I laughed at post card messages that he sent me from Cuba, St Kitts and Haiti. Old guys from Cuba smoked their cigars was such pride and tanties washed their clothing in basins in d hot sun, Guadeloupe, 1959.These images, music and art are reflections of my past.
Global Warming (one of my paintings with my daughter's help)
Lily having fun with all my collective instruments
A Senegalese chac chac
playing the harmonica
Accordion from Germany (kept this for six years)
Armando Torres, Painting, CUBA
TAP TAP (a pencil holder displaying a bus in Hait)
A painting he bought me from Haiti.
POST CARD: Habitation Creole, Guadeloupe
POST CARD: Barbados
POST CARD: CAYENNE, FRENCH GUYANA
POST CARD: Prince Alfred's Basin, Castries, St Lucia
POST CARD: The City Hall, GeorgeTown, Guyana
POST CARD: Fidel Castro in Venezuela (in exile 1959)
POST CARD: La Isla Bonita, CUBA
POST CARD: Vodou dance, Haiti
One of my Favourite Post Card: Riflemen, Cuba
POST CARD: Cigar Factory worker, Trinidad, Cuba
POST CARD: Habitation Pecoul, Martinique
POST CARD: FOG CITY, LONDON with BIG BEN
POST CARD: BEQUIA
Arabic Nargille, from Turkey ....Represents my love for Arabic culture and my life experiences with Arabs from Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Palestine and Jordan.
I walked through this park many times and the church, amazing
POST CARD: Traditional Chattel House, St Vincent
Here are some samples of music I collected from Travelling
Amr Diab Habibi ya nour el ain....
Time of the Gypsies soundtrack...rich Gypsy culture and their witty men
KASSAV: FRENCH ANTILLEAN MUSIC
D IRON MAN FROM CAPE VERDE
MY FAVOURITE TIBETAN SINGER
My favourite Opera singer: Rigoletto -Verdi -Donna E Mobile
Love the way how the story is told. There's a meaning to it.
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