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Saturday 5th July, i went with The St James Public Library Book Club to a tour  (in a maxi taxi); of Paramin, a village located on one of the highest points of western area of the Northern Range in Trinidad🇹🇹  which forms part of the Maraval area, a sprawling, steep and mountainous village whose residents have traditionally been farmers, famous for producing herbs like chives, thyme and parsley. On the way to the 'lookout' we stopped at a tiny museum curated by a lovely lady fondly referred to as 'Aunty Julia'. What a fun tour we had. We stopped on our way back, to buy seasonings and wine.

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Visit to Paramin 🇹🇹 5th July 2025 - The St James Library Book Club

[All photos by Gillena Cox]

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vintage village jokes -

to the voice of our guide

sheer laughter replies

© gillena cox 2025

Paramin is a village located on one of the highest points of the western area of the Northern Range in Trinidad, which forms part of the

Maraval area, a sprawling, steep and mountainous village whose residents have traditionally been farmers, famous for producing herbs like chives, thyme and parsley.

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 REVISIT

Book Club Visit - Historic Mayaro

Book Club Visit - Wild Fowl Trust 2012

Club Visit - Chacachacare 2011

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['The Book Review' gouache paints on water-colour paper 5"x7"]

We meet to discuss the Alchemist. i had not yet read it, so i collect a copy to read after. What i did though, was familiarize myself with the novel, through internet searches. Not having been to book club meeting for quite a few months, i am glad of my decision to attend when i get there, armed, with my dish of just cooked cornmeal coo coo with ochroes. So, when codes of: fantasy, Personal Legends, Urmin and Thummim, Soul of the World, Language of the World, Elixir of Life, omens, maktub; are tossed into the web of discussion, no way am i lost.

everyone talking
at the same time; the pop
of fake champagne
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Revisit
apple cinnamon
flavors ...
conversations at
our book club meet
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book club meeting -
we eat cake celebrating
a birthday
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readers/writers meet -
in a jug of water
ice cubes are melting
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Glossary
corn meal coo coo - made with cormeal cooked in coconut milk, similar to polenta
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Today's lunch, with my book club

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I making the pasta salad; simple and delicious

My Ingredients
pasta
canned Shiitake mushrooms
canned black eyed peas
canned water chestnuts
pimento stuffed olives
garlic cloves
peppers
salt
black pepper
olive oil
red wine vinegar
honey

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Revisit
cake
lawn
facing

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my unkempt lawn -
daisies rise up calling out to
passing butterflies
© gillena cox


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thousand daisies
around the farmer's house -
lowing of a cow
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"book club chats with the author"

'Is America She Gone' by Beverly-Ann Scott

Her style is real, refreshing, compelling and totally absorbing. For those who haven't yet read it, this her second novel, i dare say, is also a 'must read'.
We chatted with Trinidadian author, Dr Beverly-Ann Scott, about her second novel at the Nalis, St James Library this morning. Happy i was there.

slight drizzle...
the curve of my umbrella
nestles in my grip
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patterned ... in the heart of love
furls of ... encounters
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(table setting at Nalis St James Book Club meeting yesterday, we celebrated 3 birthdays and St Valentine's Day)



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feeling proud
one single red rose on a vase -
everlasting love
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We chatted this morning, the Nalis St James book club, with author Balkrishna Naipaul. He told us he has nine published novels to date, ' Arc on the Horizon' is his first novel. Chatting with this author, time seemed to just slip away, as we entered the dimension of a man, broad in spectrum, and tiny in the universal scheme of reality; i was so extremely happy to be in his presence, especially since i'm reading at present his first novel.

a sampling
all the question and answers
fitted to a span
--gillena cox

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Having read, and thoroughly enjoyed, 'Curry Casadoo' written by Kamalo Deen; i jumped at the invitation, to be present at a function to meet with it's author. So yesterday morning, it was, my delight, along with a small group of readers, friends, and staff of Nalis St James, to listen to readings from this marvellous novel and converse with him.

light streams
through closed windows...
retelling a tale
the authour's voice
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rain at the windows
some one remembers winter...
Sunday savvy
--gillena cox

Many Caribbean people will remember those days of our childhood, when we were (yuk!!!) forced into
drinking potions of well meaning cups of (foul tasting) bush tea for all kinds of disorders, most common of aliments, coughs, colds and fevers. Then we grew up and our travels around planet earth tooks us to various climes, traditions and samplings of cultures and we now encounter the stylish term of herbs. Or we start browsing the grocery counters for all kinds of (alternative medicines) in the form of attractively packaged 'herbal teas' - good anitoxidants, great stess relievers, etc etc and on reading the lables we muse, Oh yes my mum used to give us such and such to drink for such and such ailments.

Why am i talking bush tea and herbs this Sunday? Well, still fresh in my mind is yesterday's Book Club Mingle (a meeting of more than one of our Nalis book clubs) in celebration of our reading the series 'The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency' written by Alexander Mc Call Smith. We skyped the author (he in Edinburgh) and (we here in downtown Port of Spain) and chattered with him about his life his work his passion for writing. The main character in these books, Precious Ramotswe loves and is always drinking or offering to someone cups of red bush tea. Our day's session included a tour of The Nalis building, a session on African wrapping of clothing for head and body styles, a game which quizzed groups on the books in the series, time to intermingle chat and get to know persons from each book club, and a viewing in part of the HBO production of one of the books. How's your weekend going?

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