Two score and ten
24/01/08 21:04 Filed in: Music
I'm not one for celebrating birthdays,
but I came yea close to having a little do for this one. At 25 I
was married for the first time and still figuring out my place in
the world, often chafing badly along the way.
At 40, my mother had a grand celebration for me at my home and I shared the company of friends in the absolute certainty that I was now a man. A particularly frivolous and unfocused one, but certainly no longer a boy.
Now I'm fifty and the last ten years have been particularly life changing. I managed to live one of my oldest dreams, working first in editorial administration at the Guardian and finally getting my chance to set up and run a daily newspaper, The Wire.
Now that I'm back in business for myself again after eight years in corporate life at the Guardian and Petrotrin, I find that making money needs to be balanced by making meaning. That's very much where my head is at these days, with projects like Local Lives and Making Mas, which bring me back to where I started in photography and writing, with the ten years I spent photographing theatre in Trinidad and Tobago.
So I didn't have the little do I planned on January 23. I didn't even have time to compose this blog in time for the date because I'd commited to delivering the last three installments of the Making Mas project. So I worked through my birthday on something I loved doing, some presents are different than others.
At 40, my mother had a grand celebration for me at my home and I shared the company of friends in the absolute certainty that I was now a man. A particularly frivolous and unfocused one, but certainly no longer a boy.
Now I'm fifty and the last ten years have been particularly life changing. I managed to live one of my oldest dreams, working first in editorial administration at the Guardian and finally getting my chance to set up and run a daily newspaper, The Wire.
Now that I'm back in business for myself again after eight years in corporate life at the Guardian and Petrotrin, I find that making money needs to be balanced by making meaning. That's very much where my head is at these days, with projects like Local Lives and Making Mas, which bring me back to where I started in photography and writing, with the ten years I spent photographing theatre in Trinidad and Tobago.
So I didn't have the little do I planned on January 23. I didn't even have time to compose this blog in time for the date because I'd commited to delivering the last three installments of the Making Mas project. So I worked through my birthday on something I loved doing, some presents are different than others.
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