With British Columbia's snow capped mountains for the background, the four women in our group posed for a photo. The camera was quick but the significance remains. No two are alike in this quartet bonded across generations by family, friendship and food. Yet, each is a true Trini. Diversity is our best asset, our collective smoothening of differences as we put all shades, colours and ancestry into one neat 4 by 6 photo frame. But that diversity is also about age and there's some work to do.
Having to write this column from the beautiful ski resort of Whistler, British Columbia, the five over 65 year olds on the trip with my family, tried to influence the column's subject and its contents. Long evenings covered wide-ranging matters, and great food and decent grog will do no harm to conversation and imagination. They succeeded in inadvertently becoming my subject, a reflection of their class, ease and grace. Thirty years on I want to be them.
Having to write this column from the beautiful ski resort of Whistler, British Columbia, the five over 65 year olds on the trip with my family, tried to influence the column's subject and its contents. Long evenings covered wide-ranging matters, and great food and decent grog will do no harm to conversation and imagination. They succeeded in inadvertently becoming my subject, a reflection of their class, ease and grace. Thirty years on I want to be them.
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