Life in Jamaica
Personal essays about my life in Jamaica and my journey towards mindful and intentional living.
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Affirmation for Sunday March 20, 2016
Reading Time: < 1 minute‘I am deserving of love, kindness and trust. I accept all that is good in my life.’ Source: My Jamaican Vignettes essays by Chantel DaCosta. https://myjamaicanvignettes.wordpress.com/2016/03/20/trusting-and-keeping-faith/#more-167
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Review of Mosaic: A Collection of Independent Women Volume 1, Curated by Kim Wells and P.K. Tyler
Reading Time: 2 minutesI loved everything about this book. Mosaic is an anthology of women writers. The book is filled with great and so diverse the characters, writers and writing styles. The writers and…
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Trusting and Keeping Faith
Reading Time: 2 minutesI have been up and down, mostly down last week, swiftly shifting from feeling in control and strong, to crumpling, and crying and thinking, I am defeated. I often felt…
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Letting Go
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor most of this week I have been feeling uninspired and blah. Nothing meaning appears to be happening and the activities I participate in and the work that I do seem…
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Doing the Work I Love
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis week I made the big leap in switching platforms for My Jamaican Vignettes. I am excited about this, my first official WordPress post. Over the past three months, writing…
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Hopes for a type of Prosperity-Progress Coalition Government for Jamaica
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast Thursday was Election Day and I voted. First time voter and I am glad I did. Now, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) won the Jamaican General Elections. It was…
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Pondering Election Promises (Jamaica Votes 2016)
Reading Time: 4 minutesGeneral elections are five days away, I have been pouring over the political manifestos and election promises and I am still not certain who I should support. The primary promises are…
