Keeping Buzzy: December 2022

Saturday 31 December 2022

As Chapters Close, Others Open

Greetings to all who visited the blog over the last month. My posts are now infrequent. Between preparing lunch on Sundays, preparing for the next week on Saturdays, watching kdramas in my spare time... I don't get on the blog very much.

Of course, I'm quite disappointed that so few people visited the page featuring young Barbadian athletes. 😞 Kudos to them all.

To those who visited the page from the USA, Barbados, Canada, Germany and Greece. Special greetings to you.

I always enjoy the Christmas season - the music, the music...did I say the music? It is stressful for some, but it's the one month when I'm not bothered by whatever challenges arise. December is my birth month and this year I treated myself to this...

it was as lovely to taste as it was to look at.

Even as I celebrated, others were coming to the end of their line. We lost some persons who were outstanding in their fields. The month began with the passing of Irene Cara, actress, singer, dancer, whose breakout performance was in the movie Fame, 40 years ago.

Viewing the video still makes me smile broadly.

Then in the Caribbean we heard the news of the passing of Singing Francine, whose parang Christmas songs I love to hear during the season. She is Barbados-born but went to Trinidad as a teenager and became an exponent of the calypso artform winning the Calypso Queen title in that island. I featured one of those parang songs in 2018.

And then the month ends with the news of the passing of the legendary Brazilian footballer, Pele. Around the same time there was the news of the death of another outstanding calypsonian in Trinidad, Black Stalin (stage name). One of my fave calypsos by him is "Bun Dem". Listen here.