You're far more Precious than Diamonds and Pearls

A Father's Love-Jamaica

My father took a good look at us. Then he sat me down on his lap and said something that I will never forget. He looked me straight in the eyes and said, "Hana, everything that God made valuable in the world is covered and hard to get to. Where do you find diamonds? Deep down in the ground, covered and protected. Where do you find pearls? Deep down at the bottom of the ocean, covered up and protected in a beautiful shell. Where do you find gold? Way down in the mine, covered over with layers and layers of rock. You've got to work hard to get to them."

He looked at me with serious eyes. "Your body is sacred. You're far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too."

Source: From the book, More Than a Hero: Muhammad Ali's Life Lessons Presented Through His Daughter's Eyes by Hana Ali

Republican war on Women, Uncle Sugar

Republicans have grave difficulty speaking about women issues from Rape, abortion, birth control the woman's role in the society and now Gov. Mike Huckabee discussing the woman's Libido. The fact is when Republicans discuss these issues concerning women it is done by men who do not know or  have not in the past shown sensitivity to the women's need and have blocked the growing influence of women in our society.

Gov. Mike Huckabee

Democrats, Mike Huckabee said, see women as “helpless and hopeless creatures whose only goal in life is to have a government provide for them birth control medication" because they "cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government."

 “It’s time for Republicans to no longer accept listening to Democrats talk about a war on women," Mike Huckabee continued, "Because the fact is, the Republicans don’t have a war on women. They have a war for women. For them to be empowered; to be something other than victims of their gender.

"Women I know are outraged that Democrats think that women are nothing more than helpless and hopeless creatures whose only goal in life is to have a government provide for them birth control medication," he continued. "Women I know are smart, educated, intelligent, capable of doing anything anyone else can do. Our party stands for the recognition of the equality of women and the capacity of women. That’s not a war on them, it’s a war for them.

Nine years ago, as Governor Mike Huckabee thought that the government should ensure that everyone had access to contraception.

"And if the Democrats want to insult the women of America by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it," he said. "Let’s take that discussion all across America because women are far more than Democrats have made them to be. And women across America have to stand up and say, 'Enough of that nonsense.'”

Note
 In 2005, Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee signed a law mandating Arkansas insurance plans provide contraception coverage, including church-affiliated organizations such as hospitals and universities.

Pope Francis provokes conservative outrage

The Unbridled Pope Francis

The new pope’s first apostolic exhortation, released in late November, is critical of what he describes as “unbridled consumerism” and its impact on how we value human life. “Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless… Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded,”. Pope Francis

A life fulfilled

Cotton Tree

The things that God had promised David at the beginning of his life were fulfilled toward the end of it. David’s words are a source of comfort for all of us who are walking through life and wondering where we will end up, or how we will finish our course on this earth.

“Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want--you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast, and sometimes only an inch a year. Perhaps you feel happier when you go fast. I don't know. I've forgotten the difference long ago, because it really doesn't matter, so long as you move.”

― Ayn Rand, We the Living

Are AMERICAN lives expendable to GUN RIGHT?

Sandy Hook Massacre

Lives Expendable to protect Gun Rights

The lives of 6 adult  were snuffed out at the end of a 20 year old shooter, reports are the guns used were owned by the shooters mother, probably a lifetime member of the NRA the organisation representing that having guns no matter how many bullets they carry should be in the hands of every citizen it is our right. 

The other five adult is yet to be determined what their position on the right to bear harm stand. Mental illness is again used as an excuse for these killings, exactly where the NRA want this conversation to take place. Did I also mention 20 Babies were also killed even then only 53% of Americans support legislation to control automatic weapons while 87% support the right to bear arms!

“In his first term,” Mr. Romney said, “ we've seen the president try to browbeat the Supreme Court. In a second term, he would remake it. Our freedoms would be in the hands of an Obama court, not just for four years, but for the next 40. That must not happen.”

Mr. Romney, who was introduced by his wife, Ann, received a standing ovation after his speech, though in the cavernous downtown dome where audience members filled only the floor, not the stands, the sound was subdued.

"Pregnancy as a result of Rape is something that God intended to happen."

Senate Candidate Richard Mourdock 

"Pregnancy as a result of Rape is something that God intended to happen."

Republican Senate Candidate Richard Mourdock on Rape.

"The only exception I have to have an abortion is in the case of the life of the mother," said Mourdock, the Tea Party-backed state treasurer. "I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize life is that gift from God. I think that even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen."

"Richard Mourdock's disturbing comment about rape is a window into Mourdock's extreme view of the world, " said Shripal Shah, spokesman for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. "Indiana can't afford to send a self-proclaimed 'zealot' and Tea Partier like Richard Mourdock to the Senate."

Romney policy is that there will be exceptions for rape.

Mitt Romney said Tuesday he has no plans to push for legislation limiting abortion, a softer stance from a candidate who has said he would "get rid of" funding for Planned Parenthood and appoint Supreme Court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade.

“There’s no legislation with regards to abortion that I’m familiar with that would become part of my agenda,” the Republican presidential nominee told The Des-Moines Register in an interview.

His comments to the Register could put him at odds with congressional Republicans who have made limiting abortion central to their messages. His own running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), has introduced bills to restrict access to abortion, and the Republican Party platform toughened its anti-abortion stance earlier this year.

 Ryan would confer legal rights on a fetus .

This August, Paul Ryan told a reporter, “ I've always adopted the idea, the position that, the method of conception does not change the definition of life,” Ryan said, referring to rape or incest. “But the Romney policy is that there will be exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother, and I think that is what people want to know, and I am comfortable with that because I think that’s a vast improvement to the status quot.”

Ryan has also supported so-called person-hood measures that would confer legal rights on a fetus (and thus potentially lead to the banning of all abortions). Last year, he cosponsored a federal bill that said that “each human life begins with fertilization, cloning or its functional equivalent, at which time every human has all legal and constitutional attributes and privileges of person-hood.”

Romney has never explicitly endorsed such a law, though he has said, as do many abortion foes, that he believes life begins at conception. Instead, his spokesman said in November 2011, “he believes these matters should be left up to states to decide.”

Pres. Obama made free contraception available for all women, which actually legislates and codifies “rare” in public policy. This is the seminal misunderstanding Republicans have about government power. They want to use state and federal power to force women to give birth, while Democrats under Pres. Obama want to utilize policy to make unwanted pregnancy not only rare, but obsolete.

The Bible says the...

Bishop Eddie Long , leader of the 25,000-member New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta,  today denied the sexual allegations presented in four lawsuits against him, including from Colorado Springs resident Jamal Paris, 23.

You have people in the church suffering, hungry, thirsty, bitter, angry all because of life's stress, what on earth is the churches doing to assist these needy people!

 Most of the Pastors in our so called churches are just about getting rich and not preaching the word of god to their people. Some Preachers are corrupt languishing their lifestyles in the community they serve without guilt.The feeling that the members of their flock are obligated to pay for the lifestyle they enjoy is preached to them in the church without push back from its members.

The Bible says the...

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Having sex and making Love - Dating websites

I now know it doesn't work that way!

Natural fruit

Don't fail to say am sorry

Speak with your mouth, not with your body or the things you do, prepare to be confrontational " let that someone know what you feel! that you feel and how you feel. Remind that someone to say, am sorry! and don't fail to say am sorry too being in Love is a serious thing. It is an Interview for a serious undertaking that will affect every facet of your life, the best outcome could be lifelong and how you start could determine how and where you end up in life.

Demand I love you, from your man.

Say, I love you every time and demand I love you back from your man. It reminds him, it reminds you, your relationship is about Love. Just as when a man says I love you, you think about it all day long, it works the same way with your man. It makes him want to come home, he want to nurture those words he want to hear them again and again.

 Making Love replenishes your relationship,

Love nourishes the mind body and soul

The words "I love you" does not come easy for a man, most times he say, "I love you" out of expectation rather than wanting to do it. For men I love you is a commitment, it is the next thing say, it is the next step forward in a relationship. Men do like commit themselves until they want to, not because the have to. Men need to be practiced how to express what they feel  Have less sex! Find time to make Love, more often! big difference! Making Love replenishes your relationship, making Love satisfies and nourishes the mind body and soul. Making Love is the physical affirmation why you are together over and over again. The satisfaction of making Love lends itself to allow and overcome difficult conversation and solutions are easily achieved. life will seem to get better everyday. Love Babe!

People who are in Love have sex too

Having sex and making Love are two distinct different things, Sex satisfies an emotional and physical arousal a burst of adrenalin. This could be the result of affection through touching, admiration, or other physical contact, when we loose sight of these feelings and circumstances things can go off the rails and go wrong, this is not Love. It takes time to bring ourselves to understand what happened and accept the fact we were just involved in a sexual intercourse however satisfied and rewarding it was we must move on however difficult it is. People who are in Love have sex as well, yes! and its important. Making love takes time, its like preparing a good meal, and that takes time, the ingredients are important. People who are in love sometimes are busy and do snack and having sex then is like snacking on your favorite thing. Having sex for people in love is and keeping the fire burning is a wonderful experience for them its called catching up. When sex ends you can put your clothes on and say goodbye and wait for the next time.

A sexual partner is someone you have sex with

Often there is grave misunderstanding about having a sexual partner and being in love, a sexual partner is someone ( friend with benefit) with whom you have sex, like to spend time, and yourself together without commitment. When sexual partners are new to each other, emotions get involved and they will always do. For some women this could more difficult than others, especially after an orgasm the ultimate satisfaction for a woman. Studies have shown for some women orgasm are rare during sexual intercourse. Some women have gone through their whole life without an orgasm, spending their whole life with the same person having children and never been sexually satisfied. The more serious part of this is that her Partner have no idea this is going on, they never spoke about it, the woman lives in that darkness unsatisfied always taken to the cliff sexually and left there high wondering whats next!. She live in self inflicted misery unable to express her feelings trying save her partners ego, he having failed to meet her expectations over and over again.

Making love to that someone embodying all your dreams

Looking at your beautiful body touching

Having love and making love is the ultimate human satisfaction, love the true feeling that embodies the mind, body, soul, nature, the future the dream of love fulfilled and unfulfilled. Love is what every man and woman think about and wonder, is there my love somewhere?always wanting to experience love. Love is what we think about when we gaze at the stars. love is the imagined and unimagined as the world turn around us wanting to share our thoughts, the thought, at that moment. 


Love is looking yonder on the beach into the blue sky as it touches the sea, at the churning waves as they then disappear on the sand and can only let that experience disappear in your thoughts. Love standing naked in front of the mirror looking at your beautiful body touching and wanting to be touched hoping that, that someone was there, and be touched. 


Love is watching flowers burst through their buds at springtime and their petals morph into beautiful bunches, the beautiful scents of lilies escape into the fresh air and wanting to ask, how beautiful is that smell? and no one is there to ask. Love watching birds kissing on the branches or tending their mate or animals affectioning each recognizing they are in love! you wonder and ask, where is my love?. Love is having that someone, making love to that someone embodying all your dreams the smells, the waves, the stars, the birds, the animals,and their dreams too. 

Have less sex! Find time to make Love!

I Love You

I could have said everything you did except the part of turning to another man that is not in my heart and that that would be scary. The relationships have had in the past were always led by the best of me, the most common thing about them, I was always with, "someone I love rather than someone that Loves me" that is a conscious decision we make internally its the person we feel right about.

The person we wait for rather than the person who came waiting for us.The person we want rather the person who want us, its scary think slowly think!. I am a Virgo as you are, we live by OUR heart rather than someone else's heart say, we do the right thing because its the right thing to do and think the right thing will be done in return.

I now know it doesn't work that way, "start living for your Hear! not with your heart, let your heart speak and not what you do" let that someone know what you feel and how you feel. Remind that someone, you did not say am sorry and don't fail to say am sorry too. Say I Love you every time and demand I love you back. It reminds him, it reminds you, your relationship is about Love. Have less sex! Find time to make Love, more often! big difference! Making Love replenishes your relationship it satisfies and nourishes the mind body and soul. It is the physical affirmation why you are together over and over again. It lends itself to allow difficult conversation and solutions are easily achieved. life will seem to get better everyday. Love Babe!

Loosing Weight without Hurting your Body!

The objective must always to loose weight, loosing weight fast is always another effort that comes with certain sacrifices challenges and dedication and involve meeting an objective within a certain time become major factor. A proper diet, eating the right food, drinking lots of water with an balanced intake of the right fruits and vegetables ensuring proper fiber content is the best choice of loosing those pounds.

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TOP 10 How to lose weight fast tips.

1. Drink plenty of water. First how to lose weight fast tip is that our body needs a lot of water so give in to water. Water is not just way to flush out toxin but if you have more water in your body you will generally feel healthier and fitter. This it self will discourage any tendency to gorge. The best thing about water is that is has no calories at all.

2. Start your day with a glass of water. As soon as you wake up, gulp down a glass of cool water. It’s a wonderful way to start you day and you only need a lesser quantity of your breakfast drink after that. A glass of water lets out all your digestive juices and sort of lubricates the insides of your body. You may have your morning cup of tea but have it after a glass of water. It is good for you.

3. Drink a glass of water before you start the meal. Water naturally needs some space so that you feel fuller without actually having to stuff yourself.

4. Have another glass of water while you are having the meal. Again this is another great how to lose weight fast super tip and a way of making yourself full, another great weight loss tip, so that you can actually rise from the table eating less but feeling full just the same. Instead of drinking it one gulp, take sips after each morsel. It will help the food to settle faster so that you get that feeling that you are full faster. SIDENOTE: Water is such a remarkable thing, but seldom do we give it the credit that it deserves. Did you know that over 66% of your body weight is nothing but water’ It’s amazing! Water also plays a vital role in weight control, which is why I donated so much space to it, above.

5. Stay away from sweetened bottle drinks, especially sodas. Hey all those colas and fizzy drinks are sweetened with sugar and sugar means calories. The more you can cut out on these sweetened bottle drinks, the better for you. If you must drink sodas, then stick to diet sodas.

6. Include in your diet things that contain more water like tomatoes and watermelons.These things contain 90 to 95 % water so that there is nothing that you have to lose by feasting on them. They fill you up without adding to the pounds.

7. Eat fresh fruit instead of drinking fruit juice. Juice is often sweetened but fresh fruits have natural sugars. When you eat fruit, you are taking in a lot of fiber, which is needed by the body, and fruits of course are an excellent source of vitamins.

8. If you do have a craving for fruit juice then go for fresh fruit juice instead of these that contain artificial flavors and colors. Or even better, try making your own fruit juice taking care not to sweeten it with too many calories.

9. Choose fresh fruit to processed fruits.Processed and canned fruits do not have as much fiber as fresh fruit and processed and canned fruits are nearly always sweetened.

10. Increase your fiber intake. Like I mentioned, the body needs a lot of fiber. So try to include in your diet as many fruits and vegetables as you can.

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Mutabaruka---Dis Poem

 

Mutabaruka is a dub poet. His name comes from the Rwandan language and translates as "one who is always victorious". He lives in Potosi District, St. James with his significant other, Yvonne, and their two children. Mutabaruka continues to perform and write poems on every issue known to man. He's known for his expressions and lively performances more so than just the poems themselves. Some of his themes include sexism, politics, discrimination, poverty, race, and especially religion. Mutabaruka's stylistic form is in a way pathos related. He uses stories and experiences to get readers to think about issues in ways that they wouldn't normally think about them.

Known as Allen Hope as a child, Mutabaruka grew up in the Jamaica with his mother, father and two sisters. When Mutabaruka was only 8, his father died from unknown causes. He attended primary school where he received his nickname, "Mutabaruka". Later, he attended the Kingston Technical High School where he trained in electronics for four years. Muta then began finding himself within his early to late teenage years. In the late 60's into early 70's there was an up roaring of Black Awareness in Jamaica during Prime Minister Michael Manley leadership. Muta, who was in his late teens at the time, was drawn into that movement. In school he read many "progressive books" including Eldredge Cleaver's “Soul on Ice” and some that were then illegal in Jamaica, such as The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Mutabaruka envisioned himself as a young revolutionary. While still employed at the Telephone Company, stopped wearing shoes, he stopped combing his hair, started growing locks, and altered his diet. During his time at the Jamaica Telephone Company Ltd, Muta began examining and surrounding himself with the Rasta lifestyle. He found it meaningful and worth living for. Soon after, he converted completely to the movement.

Butt Out , This is my Life the one I know!

Children need to be held and comforted

 It has become near impossible to continue to influence our child or children as they grow, one of the first things a baby does is challenge its Parents or those who are designated to care for it. Babies today are now left to fend for themselves earlier than ever, first Propping up a bottle on a pillow allowing them to feed themselves without being not noticed by the Parent or care giver. What is not being noticed is this child eyes follow Parent or care giver as they walk away reaching for the attention they think they deserve. It is said, the child's Brain develop 300 times faster from Birth to the age of six years old, faster than any other time in their life.

The child is now left to mechanical toys, sound from any sorts of Electronic Toys and implements attached to their surroundings to entertain and create their environment. There are all sorts of comforts being manufactured to make our Kids comfortable and they really do but they also separate us from those wonderful human contact that these Baby's became became accustomed to while they were carried by their mothers for 9 months huddled in their Bodies.

It is a grave shock to these Babies to find as soon as they are born they loose the warmth and feel of  these comforts and having to now fend for themselves once they loose the comforts of the womb. In any given day a Child/Baby would not have spent more than minutes being held in the arms of a Parent or care giver. The most personal and loving thing that a mother does for a child is Breast Feed. Breastfeeding is where a Mother develops their first Personal relationship with their child, it is where their first conversation takes place the first smile, where the mother gets comforted and the child feels love and contentment. This act of breast feed then is good for both mother and child creating the long term bond that usually shape the mother and child relationship of the future.

Emancipation Day Jamaica

Washing clothes in the river a way of life

"I rejoice I am a slave no more, and you are slave no more, Jamaica is slave no more. Amen!" Ex-slave, Thomas Gardner, shouted these words in Jamaica on August 1,

Tarrus Riley - She's Royal

Where is your Queen? Do you have a Queen? She doesn't have to be an African Queen!

Songwriters: OMAR R RILEY, DEAN FRASER

Ooo Ooo, Natural Beauty, She Is

No I Never Met Someone Shy
Until I Seen Your Eyes
Still I Had To Try, Yeah
Oh Yes, Let Me Get My Words Right And Then Approach You
Woman I Treat You Like A Man Is Suppose To
You Never Have To Cry, No
I Know Everyone Can Relate To When They Find That Special Someone

[Chorus:]
And She's Royal, Yeah So Royal
And, I Want Her In My Life.
I Never Knew Anyone So One-Of-A-Kind, No
The Way She Move To Her Own Beat
She Has The Qualites Of A Queen, She's A Queen
Ooo Ooo What A Natural Beauty
No Need No Make-Up To Be A Cutie
She's A Queen, She's A Queen

And When They Ask What A Good Woman's Made Of
She's Not Afraid And Ashamed Of
Who She Is,

She's Royal Yeh, So Royal,
And I Need Her In My Life,
I Never Knew Anyone, So One Of A Kind
Until The Night That I Seen Your Eyes
Oooww Nubian Queen, My Queen
Oooww Nubian Queen, My Queen So Supreme

I Can See It In Her Eyes, The Way She Smiles
Eh Yes Iyuhni, I Know The King An Queen Crown Same Time
So I Neva Leave Yuh Side, Juss Stick Wit Me Tru Di Trial Times
If She Seh She No Mind, Cuh Right Ya Now,Good Man Is Hard Tuh Find
Cuz She Tell Dem Nuh Badda Join Nuh Line, Dats Why She Has No Ties At This Time
I Know Many Men Are Tryin, But She Needs 2 Be More Than Wine And Dined Because

She's Royal, Yeah So Royal
And, I Want Her In My Life.
I Never Knew Anyone So Divine, No
The Way She Move To Her Own Beat
She Has The Qualities Of A Queen, So Supreme
Ooo Ooo What A Natural Beauty
No Need No Make-Up To Be A Cutie
She's A Queen, So Supreme

And When They Ask What A Good Woman's Made Of
She's Not Afraid And Ashamed Of
Who She Is,

She's Royal, Yeah So Royal
And, I Want Her In My Life.
I Never Knew Anyone So One Of A Kind, No, No
The Way She Move To Her Own Beat
She Has The Qualities Of A Queen, My Nubian Queen
Ooo Ooo What A Natural Beauty.

Edna Manley Jamaican Heritage

Biography

Bamboo Rafts along Rio grande

Born in Yorkshire England, Edna Manley's mother was Jamaican, from the prominent Shearer family. In 1936 she met her cousin Norman Manley who had come to England as a Rhodes scholar to study at Oxford. He was later conscripted and fought in (WW1) World War 1, while Edna studied at St Martin's School of Art. They married in 1922 and moved to Jamaica where Edna was to pursue her career as a sculptor creating images that reflected Jamaica's struggle for nationhood. During the 1930's Edna Manley continued to exhibit in London but increasingly her focus was Jamaica where she exhibited and supported the development of the arts.

Edna Manley's Negro Aroused (1935) aptly reflects her stylistic and social interests during that era. Hewn intentionally from dark mahogany, its naked black torso supports a head thrust upwards in search of a new dawn. Stylistically, Negro Aroused' is linked to William B lake's romantic imagery of a renovated or resurrected man (Boxer, 1990), but conceptually it wrestles with edenic and primordial thinking closer to the primitives Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth. Yet, in spite of its idealism, Negro Aroused is a constrained and even pained figure. Even without chains, its movement is frustrated by its rooted akimbo posture, suggesting that the black man's future is not born out of freedom but an irrevocable recognition of place. Norman Manley considering how the black man might triumph over this adversity wrote,

There is a tremendous difference between living in a place and belonging to it and feeling that your own life and destiny is irrevocably bound up in the life and destiny of that place. It is that spirit which is the most hopeful thing in Jamaica today. It is that spirit which alone encourages the development of our national consciousness...

Sculptures such as Negro Aroused (1936) became icons for this era and much of the work that she created in the run up to Jamaica's independence such as Into the Sun (1954), Growth (1958) and I Saw My Land (1960) featuring the same heroic black figure, bear this weight of representing the nation's vision.

Edna Manley

Her message promoted black self-dignity, but never at the expense of personal and autobiographical details. The Moses images from the 1950's suggest how her personal and public life were entwined once her husband Norman Manley became Jamaica's Chief Minister. Edna Manley's images of the prophet Moses bear strong resemblance to her husband Norman, while the narrative imagery of works like I Saw My Land (1960) boldly signal his role as deliverer of the nation. The designation 'Moses' was an appropriate one in a society that saw itself as being freed from bondage and colonialism and set on a path for Independence. As part of her efforts to support the national development Edna taught art classes and helped to establish the Jamaica School of Art and Crafts (1950) through which she influenced later generations of artists. Her husband became Chief Minister of Jamaica in 1954 and although he lost the national elections in 1961, he was instrumental in leading Jamaica to Independence in 1962. Norman Manley died in 1969, but was succeeded by their son Michael who became Prime Minister in 1972. Edna continued to play an active role in cultural development as a founder member of the National Gallery of Jamaica and as one of the countries foremost artists winning numerous awards and national commissions and sculpting an enormous body of work, right up until her death at age 86.

Source

Edna Manley College: http://emc.edu.jm/?q=artlibrary/artist_bio/171

Jamaican Lingo, Explained - CHACKA- CHACKA

Jamaicans Proud Lingo mi-seh-wah

The Jamaican Lingo a Proud Heritage.

Why Jamaicans so frequently "double-up" their words (Funny)
This is a "good-good" article...refreshingly inspiring and educational and, at the same time, funny.

Scroll down. Maybe you have some more expressions to add to the list.....Enjoy.

Doubling up our words

I would love for someone to explain to me why Jamaicans so frequently "double-up" their words. Has anyone at the University taken the time to study this curious phenomenon?.
Its obvious that some examples of this occurrence are just English words that we've gotten into the habit of saying twice, perhaps for the sake of emphasis. Perhaps it is easier to simply double-up a word than to find additional words to help emphasize or it's a part of a Jamaican penchant for deliberate over-exaggeration in our descriptions of even mundane things.

Other words appear not to be English at all and perhaps may have been passed down to us by our African, English or Spanish ancestors.

Consider the following examples:

Batta batta: To survive or merely get by. E.g. "How yuh stay Ralston?"
"Bwoy Lenny, mi jus deh yah a batta batta inna di recession".

Bumpy-bumpy: Very bumpy. Covered in bumps. e.g. "Gweh! Yuh face bumpy-bumpy like jackfruit!"

Cabba-cabba: Uncivilised people. "Is when Parliament get so full of cabba-cabba?"

Chacka-chacka: Untidy. Disorganized.

Cass-Cass: A noisy quarrel or controversy. (See Ray-ray) Studies have shown that the persons most likely to be involved in Cass-Cass are fool-fool, cabba-cabba people who enjoy the mix-up and ray-ray.

Deadly-Deadly: Unexciting. Boring. Conventional Jamaican wisdom is that deadly-deadly relationships often lead to infidelity. e.g. "Leroy, mi tyad ah the deadly-deadly lovin. If yuh nuh careful yuh ah go find Joe Grind inna yuh life!"
Degeh-degeh: Singly. By itself.

Dibby-dibby: Not worthy of respect. A dibby-dibby girl is best avoided. A dibby-dibby, licky-licky girl should be shunned like the plague.

Dooguh-dooguh: Sexual intercourse. What's popularly known today as "daggering". (Popularly known in places where it hasn't been completely banned by the Broadcasting Commission, that is.)
Fenkeh-fenkeh: Second rate. Lacking vigor or vitality. See pyah-pyah.

-Fool-fool: More than ordinarily foolish. Bush-level stupidity.

Good-good: Pristine, high quality. e.g. "Bwoy is mi good-good scarf yuh tek a shine shoes?!" Or "Imagine! Dis dutty bwoy go breed di parson good-good daughter!"

-Gwaany-gwaany: To be boastful. A show-off.

Henka-henka: To pine for/long for. e.g. "The Olint money gone! It nuh mek sense yuh ah henka-henka after it!"

-Labba-labba: To speak or talk excessively. Also known as "chatty-chatty".

Lay-lay: To waste time, procrastinate. E.g. "Instead of working yuh deh a lay-lay pon thingsjamaicanslove.com a day time!".

Licky-licky: Greedy. Licky-licky people frequently meet tragic ends. e.g. "Is licky-licky him did licky-licky, why Linval go eat off the young Ackee dem an dead".

-Meckeh-meckeh: Thick in texture or consistency.

Nuff nuff: Large/plentiful in number. E.g. "Yow, yuh tink dis recession is a play-play ting? Is nuff-nuff people gwine lose dem work when Government cut public sector jobs".

One-one: Singly. One by one. "Myrtle, yuh nah see Pastor Brown an di church sister dem? Him jus a jus a pick dem off, one-one; like ripe mango offa di tree!" There is also "two bi two".

Play-play: Not serious or meaningful in nature. E.g. "Junior, mi tyad of the play-play relationship. Why we can't get married?".

-Pyah-pyah: Second rate. Of inferior quality. See fenkeh-fenkeh

-Ray-ray: Controversy, pandemonium.

Sawka-sawka: To treat roughly, often in a sexual context. e.g. "No Elva, last night mi haffi stop him half way through an ask him how him a sawka- sawka di ting so!".

-Wagga-wagga: Fat. Obese. The other end result of licky-licky behavior.

-Walla-walla: To wallow or indulge in.

Warra-warra: The definition of "warra-warra" is a little hard to pin down but it seems to refer to a person's "private parts". As in: "Dutty bwoy, don't mek ah tell yuh bout yuh warra-warra!" Or "Move yuh warra-warra from side ah mi".

Woi-woi: Far away. Remote.
(N.B. Sometimes we even "triple-up" our words - e.g. "I can't believe him leave you and the baby without a penny? Jus so-so so?).

The Jamaican talk is also reflected in its Music.Famous Reggae Artists like Bob Marley use much of the Jamaican lingo in his music. While Jamaican lingo May seem to be difficult to understand by some It it is a part of its deep proud culture.

Just as the developed world celebrates the magnificence of its cultural mix. Jamaicans are extremely proud of its English, Spanish, African and Irish background where its language and heritage came from.

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Smile in the Morning.

She Laid as if Lifeless 

Coffee cup in hand sitting near the nook, standing at he kitchen counter she turned and looked at me it was 5:30 in the morning. She muttered under her breath,"why do I do this" she continued to pack the lunch case.Can "you pass me a bottle of that water from the freezer", she asked. I opened the freezer and handed her a bottle of water completely frozen, she looked at me "is there anything else you want to take along today" no honey,I replied,she turned and smiled, a long beaming smile, I took the last gulp from the second cup of walked over to the counter where she stood, she was looking a look I have not seen for a long time.

She handed me my lunch case with her left hand and placed her right and on top of mine, the touch was soft and deep. I kissed her,as I walked to the door her footsteps were soft and loud behind me, I was smiling deep inside me. I opened the door I knew she was right there. I stepped outside holding the door ajar. Again I felt her soft fingers taking the place of mine as I gently let the door leave my hand into hers.

As I walked to my car I felt her piercing eyes across my shoulders, my fingers trembled as I opened the door. Through the corners of my eye, I saw her standing there her body pressed against the edge her hands one above the other between her chest, her face touching the doors edge.

My nerves were shattered, my right leg trembled as as it touched the floor, hurriedly my body fell into the seat my left leg was lifeless as I dragged it inside the car. my car did not start as my wet fingers slipped from the keys. My head drooped my forehead slightly touching the steering wheel. wiping my hand on my leg I tried again the car roared and started, I rolled my window down waving as I backed out the driveway.

I did not look to see if she was there I knew she was, this morning was different I felt her there. I muttered to myself, "I know why she she do this",that moment I had a long breath taking morning smile.