{"id":159151,"date":"2016-03-28T13:46:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T17:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=159151"},"modified":"2016-03-28T17:03:12","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T21:03:12","slug":"me-and-my-wayward-childhood-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/me-and-my-wayward-childhood-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMENTARY: Me and My Wayward Childhood Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_159154\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-159154\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-159154\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Wayward-friend.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018My-Boy\u2019 taking a nap in the village square\" width=\"275\" height=\"200\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-159154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2018My-Boy\u2019 taking a nap in the village square<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On the early\u00a0 warm morning of January 3rd a few years ago just as I was heading out of La Plaine for the airport, one of my classmates at La Plaine school, whose nick name is \u2018My-Boy\u2019 stopped by to say good bye. I hadn\u2019t seen him in more than a decade and a half and so I welcomed the early morning\u2019s surprise visit.<\/p>\n<p>My-Boy\u2019s left leg was amputated after a bolder rolled and pinned his leg while working in his garden in the mountains more two decades ago. He had never left the village and over the decades had grown to like the (rum) bottle immensely. He was at a stage where the \u2018bottle\u2019 was now drinking out of him.<\/p>\n<p>My-Boy quickly asked me if I could give him a \u2018little something\u2019 for his Christmas. I handed him some money as he drank a few shots of rum from a small plastic bottle which he kept in his side pocket. He then asked me to give him a drink because he has to take \u2018one for the road\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>I took a hard look at his face with its Kalinago features and it registered pain, hardship and emptiness. He told me that he had slept at the nearby Bus stop in the village square.His facial veins seemed to have spider like features. In medical circles this condition is called Telangiectasia<strong><em>, <\/em><\/strong>a<em>\u00a0<\/em>benign skin condition which often affects the normal flow in blood vessels. One of the leading causes of this condition is alcoholism.<\/p>\n<p>He then sang the song which placed him third runner-up in the last La Plaine carnival calypso competition the year before. The song was short on content but full of raunchy lyrics and sexual suggestions. That was not surprising as his calypso name is Mighty \u2018Pum-Pum\u2019. I was dying of uncontrollable laughter by the time he got to the chorus. Then our conversation \u00a0got more serious. He told me that his biggest life regrets were that he hated school and always found an opportunity to stay away from classes.<\/p>\n<p>I told him I remember clearly that he would join us at noon time as we headed home for lunch after staying away from school all morning. He would hide in the bushes and would spend the time picking mangoes and oranges or setting dove traps. Other times he would spend his mornings and afternoons on the river banks fishing.<\/p>\n<p>The location of the school is at the bottom of the village at the junction where the road leads to Laronde and points south. My-Boy\u2018s home is in Balizear, the section of La Plaine at the base of Morne Gouvernear near the track which descends to the Sari-Sari Falls. That meant that he would have to walk a few minutes more to get to school than most of us who lived in the village center.<\/p>\n<p>The distance from the school also made a perfect excuse for not bothering to return to school for the two hours (1:30 PM\u2013 3:00 PM) after lunch period. My-Boy complained that the thirty minutes\u2019 walk from Balizear to the school after lunch was too much for him in the hot sun and bear-footed.<\/p>\n<p>He would always tell his mom and elders that he had attended school all day. Of course he never had any home work. We did not dare challenge him in public or complain to his mom about his constant absence from school. The few times we attempted to address that issue with him, he would always threaten us with bodily harm with his sharpened cutlass. He would say in patois, \u2018If anyone of you ever mentions my name to my mother it will be judgment day for you\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>After about an hour of talking and reminiscing, he wished me safe passage to America and departed. He then hobbled away past the few sugar cane and banana trees that line my parent\u2019s home, passed the big Jubilee cross and slowly disappeared into the valley. Our lives had taken very different turns after starting in the same place at the same time and under very similar circumstances and realities.<\/p>\n<p>I began thinking about the powerful exchange I had just experienced. The conversation saddened me, forit was emotionally exhausting on my conscience and it pricked and fatigued my heart. I kept asking myself why didn\u2019t I tell his mom that he was frequently absent from school. Maybe his life could have turned out differently. Also I wondered if there any treatment programs in rural Dominica like Alcohol Anonymous (AA) for folks who are afflicted with alcoholism and other drug dependencies.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-159166\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Morne-Gouvernear.jpg\" alt=\"Morne Gouvernear\" width=\"273\" height=\"198\" \/>Suddenly, my deep thoughts and temporary sadness were interrupted by the breathtaking sights of the majestic early eastern morning sunrise on the horizon. As a kid growing up in this mountain village I always sat on the steps looking east where the \u2018skies meet the sea\u2019. The early morning sun rays appeared to be bouncing off the canopies of the green and lush rain forests. To my right in the far distance was the therapeutic panoramic view of the unpolluted white mist billowing out of Morne Gouverneaur\u2019s belly.<\/p>\n<p>The powerful and almost magical sights triggered more memories of fun boyhood days while growing up in that that small southeastern agricultural community playing cricket with coconut bats and hanging out with My Boy, Jabo, Lotto, (the late) Sheppy and the other boys.<\/p>\n<p>The sights made me realize how beautiful a country Dominica is. It then occurred to me in a very real way why foreigners from all corners of the world are flocking to the island and scrambling for all the land their money can buy.<\/p>\n<p>A few hours after My-Boy left me on my parents\u2019 back steps, I boarded an aircraft. Minutes later, it took a hard right and quickly disappeared out of Dominican airspace. But did I really disappear from My-Boy, La Plaine, and Dominica? I am not sure.Later that night my family and I arrived \u2018home\u2019 in Washington under frigid weather conditions. As I headed to work \u00a0in D.C\u2019s harsh morning\u2019s rush hour traffic exhausted, sleep deprived and jet lagged, My-Boy\u2019s conversation twenty four (24) hours ago weighed heavily on my mind.<\/p>\n<p>I agree with the Scottish educated (the late) Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere who lead and took his country to political independence in the 50s and early 60s. He returned to his ancestral village after he stepped down from the Presidency and left Dar- es- Salaam. Shortly after, he told a BBC reporter that Dar- es Salem, London, Paris, Brussels, NYC and the big city was duty. He now is at home at the foothills of the Kilimanjaro Mountains tending to his crops and animals and having real friends.<\/p>\n<p>My early morning rendezvous with My- Boy on those steps and the varied emotions I went through then and after that warm morning solidified my true (not relative) definition of home. My \u2018real\u2019 home will always be in the rain forests of the La Plaine Mountains between the Sari-Sari and Laronde river valleys, close to My-Boy\u2019s home where the manicou and agouti bid each other good night\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the early\u00a0 warm morning of January 3rd a few years ago just as I was heading out of La Plaine for the airport, one of my classmates at La Plaine school, whose nick name is \u2018My-Boy\u2019 stopped by to&#8230;","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":159154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>COMMENTARY: Me and My Wayward Childhood Friend - 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