Becoming Ash

The anatomy of surrender is simple.
We are flesh, faith, and impermanence.
So when the illusion of control collapses,
who do we become in the fall?

I tried to make a simple lunch. Instead I found myself wrestling chickpeas, rotten produce, smoked salmon ethics, and the United States ‘saving’ Venezuela. Some days the world will not stay out of your sandwich.

The Caribbean is being positioned, by design, as the next geopolitical chessboard.
We can assume this is about democracy but what if it’s not and we just haven’t connected the dots yet?

America didn’t invent the game—it just refined it. The Union Jack, Stars and Stripes – the British Raj, Banana Republics, the blueprint was always simple: destabilize, divide, extract, and brand it as salvation, the tactics are the same. Uprisings are reframed as riots. Resistance is called terrorism. And when the people starve under corporate-imposed sanctions or coups, it’s painted as their own failure to embrace “freedom.”
This isn’t new. It’s just exported back home now. The tools that hollowed out the Global South have been turned inward. The surveillance, the debt traps, the poisoned water, the militarized streets—it’s coming full circle. The colonies are here now. And the illusion of democracy is the last pretty curtain keeping the house from catching fire.