‘Ice is at the cold heart of all our deepest global warming fears.’ Photograph: Nick Cobbing/Greenpeace
Ice is the white flag being waved by our planet, under fire from the atmospheric attack being mounted by humanity. From the frosted plains of the Arctic ice pack to the cool blue caverns of the mountain glaciers, the dripping away of frozen water is the most crystal clear of all the Earth’s warning signals.
An arresting event has graced the literary world of Guyana. At the tender age of ninety-one Mr Richard Nichols, published or rather self-published and printed his autobiography, MY LIFE, MY TIME. It was done in handwriting in a number of notebooks. As he acknowledges, his versatile offspring with their computer skills took it from there. His locality roots are in the same part of the country as those of “ The World’s Oldest Blogger” Mr Randall Butisingh. Unlike that eminence he had no previous formal training in writing or teaching literature. The blogger is native of Buxton. The auto biographer is a native of Bachelors’ Adventure, a stone’s throw from Buxton on East Coast Demerara.
It is a book of one hundred and four pages, with 10 pages of family photographs, a maternal and a paternal family tree, made by the author. On the front cover is a photograph of the author much as he looks at the time of publication, or at present. On the back cover is one of him in his working days; a confident elder on the front cover and a curious, uncertain worker on the back cover. The book is very reader friendly, with its forty-two short chapters, each captioned with its topic. Even the chapters in which he tells of his conversion, of meeting his exceptional wife, Drucilla Pyle in a Pentecostal church community, and celebrates the heaven of their marriage are kept short. Continue reading →
– The Observer, Sunday 25 September 2011
