Tower Of Babel

Bwoy, how often is it that you find you are becoming consumed by the things you need to get done? Cho, I am in one of them moods now…I feel like I could jus pack a likkle bag with a towel, shorts and T-shirt and just drive out to some desolate beach in Portland and chill out. Loaf in a hammock while the sound of the waves crashing on shore, the gentle sea breeze and the smell of the salty air caresses your cares away like a good massage! Jump into the cleansing surf for a ‘natural’ (au raw) swim and ting…sip two well cold Red Stripe Beer and drink some jelly coconut. With any luck, I may jus meet two phat mermaid as well! Reading this article made me feel even more like just saying to hell with it all.

Rass man, dat sound well inviting now. The everyday routine jus naw hold me today. Too much to be done in too short a time. Is that what we call stress? Maybe. You get mi drift though? Don’t you feel that sometimes this sort of living is just not doing it for you? A simple rural sort of life with the bare essentials…living off the land seeming far less complicated and more attractive? Anyway…….it not going happen, but who says we can’t wish for it? I think I need to head out to a beach soon.

I see the ever present smell of the goodly herb is in the air again. Actually, is not one, but two ganja stories in today’s Gleaner! What you all think ’bout the figure of 180,000 smokers? It seems small to me still…ganja use here seems so widespread. Anyway, maybe my perception is clouded by the constant inhalation of the stuff from the weedheads in close proximity to me ….so their figures could be correct….

So, shall we get into some self revealing here?? You all want to know if I have ever tried it…yep…once. Back in school days..it really didn’t do much for me and I never bothered with it again. What ’bout you?

Oh, suddenly a memory of some mischief that Mad Bull and I got up to in our teen days is awakened. Yeah man, we did ‘tief’ a well nourished ganja shrub from one of my neighbours nuff years back. Hope he is now resting in peace still. His spirit probably now knows who did tek weh him herb tree. Think I posted about it looooong time ago.

Nevertheless, let me get ready to do the usual. In case you hear I doh reach work this morning…tell dem that they might just find me on some remote beach in Portland or Negril chilling out with a bighead spliff and having some serious reasoning with Jah, Selassie I! More time.

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