01-28-2015, 12:09 PM
If I were in Suzen's place I'd never go back there. No question.
Like Sharleen, I know many, MANY people brutally murdered in Jamaica with no resolution - its tragic and its sad. After Uncle Sam "dissapeared" I have not spent any time in Little Bay - I mean, what was the point? Uncle Sam was such a huge part of my experience there.
Over the past two months I have gone by the Pastry shop and seen the devastation on Sharon's soul. It was pretty hard to wrap my head around the fact that Colin was taken from us.
I just got back to Cali last night after 2 1/2 months there - and I fully plan on returning next winter for the same amount of time. I am not vested there in anyway except emotionally - my community of friends who I cherish, a place that I cherish. Suzen might have a point about hanging out with expats but...many expats over the years have been victims of violent crime as well. Maybe I'm just lucky (touching wood) and we all have been touched with violence in our community - we go on, surviving and living and enjoying our times together in honor of those taken from us way too soon. We are also very blessed with the people we live with and around in my neighborhood - we're a tight group that care for each other and are a group that have been living together there for many years. Or maybe that sentiment is there just to make me "feel better". I don't know.
Its such a tortured country - some areas more tortured than others. Negril and Westmoreland have always been the "wild west" and edge that drew me and kept me there for the past 30 years. As the years have gone on I have learned to carry myself differently on many levels. But tomorrow is never promised and crazy shit can fall on any of us at any time.
Like Sharleen, I know many, MANY people brutally murdered in Jamaica with no resolution - its tragic and its sad. After Uncle Sam "dissapeared" I have not spent any time in Little Bay - I mean, what was the point? Uncle Sam was such a huge part of my experience there.
Over the past two months I have gone by the Pastry shop and seen the devastation on Sharon's soul. It was pretty hard to wrap my head around the fact that Colin was taken from us.
I just got back to Cali last night after 2 1/2 months there - and I fully plan on returning next winter for the same amount of time. I am not vested there in anyway except emotionally - my community of friends who I cherish, a place that I cherish. Suzen might have a point about hanging out with expats but...many expats over the years have been victims of violent crime as well. Maybe I'm just lucky (touching wood) and we all have been touched with violence in our community - we go on, surviving and living and enjoying our times together in honor of those taken from us way too soon. We are also very blessed with the people we live with and around in my neighborhood - we're a tight group that care for each other and are a group that have been living together there for many years. Or maybe that sentiment is there just to make me "feel better". I don't know.
Its such a tortured country - some areas more tortured than others. Negril and Westmoreland have always been the "wild west" and edge that drew me and kept me there for the past 30 years. As the years have gone on I have learned to carry myself differently on many levels. But tomorrow is never promised and crazy shit can fall on any of us at any time.
"Once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right..."
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