It’s the height of Silly Season in St.Kitts: Election Day today. The accusations of cheating, withholding voter lists, non Nationals trying to vote etc are thick as molasses. You would be loving it.
This election, there is a website where you can get updates about what is happening in each constituency automatically as they come in. I keep checking it and thinking about what you would be saying about each one I read.
Although I miss you every day, it is on silly days like today where I can hear you, see you, and just know how much you would be into this… and changing your mind hourly, that I miss you most.
Six years ago we went to a Labour Rally in Conaree and passed by Constituency 2’s office each evening to say hello and for you to chat, chat, chat about what was going on and what was going to happen and what you hoped the government would do for your country. I loved every moment of it, because you were the true you; proud, friendly, engrossed, engaged, involved, passionate and loving everything about your country for exactly what it was and everything it gave you.
Times spent with you like that make it okay that I don’t have a lot of videos of you or that you never really looked happy in most photos, because the memories are as clear and vivid as the red of our shirts.
I miss you so much, Daddy. Though today I will accept that you are probably missing silly season more than you are missing me.
