Legends Lives And Loves Along The Inside Passage

HARDCOVER So have a care, or petition an inquiry. Remember how certain individuals were discriminated against by upper ship officers, who let this continue for years, without understanding. Feel the disgust as the injustice exacerbated as the number of personnel increased. Probe the incompetent union reps who pretended indifference and compounded the problems. Who am I? The first Black employee to be Chief Engineer, who was assaulted by a pro boxer, who the company never charged. The Racial Discrimination are documented inside the pages of this book. The details of abuse, oppression, and distress endured while working the ships as they sailed thru the waters of BC. As Bligh made Christian forever relevant with the Bounty and Bligh's mistreatment of his crew, so too has this company made my name relevant with the Ferries, where I continued to suffer without an advocate to my claims for retribution... and thereby I became, from January 1969 until June 2004, the "BLACK mark on their Lily White Sides"

The title doesn't say it all. What it does is attempt to lay open life's experiences over the past 50+ years. In this, you will find instances of love gone good and love gone bad. You will learn of peoples and places many times like people and places you already know. As I journey back through these past experiences, I hope some of you will feel to join and relive with me in these forages. Others I hope will see themselves and in so doing, will avoid pitfalls which I have crossed over, pains which I have endured and pleasures and loves which were my rewards. Love's Refuge in truth, if you read the table of contents, it will also help you to understand the frame of minds at the different times that these words were put together.

Come look at all the captured steps which I've tried to lay out so you better would see the pictures, tho in words, which makes one small togetherness, bringing us in a same time and space, so we can share our deeper philosophies as our paths in our lives did intermix. So different yet so much alike we lived, and live still, to walk along and let us note the 'how much alike we are or were in passing thru.' So take any title and think back to that subjected time, place or day and smile... yes smile... you will, you must, you need to... for to capture and relive our memories -- that is all we keep through our passages of time. This book is just one part of a series of poetry books by this author, who was born in Trinidad, raised in Cayman and after a three-year adventure of world travelling while working deep sea, immigrated to Canada. Herein you will find pages which contains prose about the unexpected bumps of life, the joys of the smoother rides and the deep tears that can only come from loving.

Thank you for your interest in my ramblings I DO hope I have in some small yet significant way caused you to think back to a happier day, a time, a friend or even just a place whereat YOU were Happy. I have penned over 2000 tidbits, which I am so grateful to have you share. These were my Help and Salvation thru many of my most bitter days and served to keep me sane and hopeful that I a life and future had and this was ALL just being built or carved to leave for someone other....YOU....herein to find solace....Thanks for reading......

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