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My Book-West Cliffe
West Cliffe - My Biography - The Road That Got Us Here
Note From The Author:
This book is written in language that is geared towards the Jamiacan culture, as well as certain dialect of the Patois Language.
Some words that are spelt and written in the British English, are done so, as to entertain the Jamaican culture, for clarity in some cases, especially for the people of my community, and district, located in the Hills of Negril. A little town, called Orange Hill, Hill's People, located in the parish of Westmoreland.
Sincerely,
Noamie
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CONTENTS
West Cliffe; The Place I called Home; The Place I walked Alone
Front Cover: Noamie -From The Corner of My Mind; i looked
West Cliffe by Norma Bremmer-McLain All Rights Reserved.
No unauthorized re-print or electronic storage, or distribution without written permission from the owner-Noamie or agent.
Acknowledgements & Gratitude's...................................................Page i
Chapter One .................................................................. Page 3 -9
Prelude to Introduction & Page One............... ii
1964 -1966: West Cliffe - The Road That leads Us Here.......... .3
My Early days of childhood
Remembering that which cannot be forgotten
The Road That Leads Us Here:.........................................................................3
Old Forgotten Landscapes: Old Landmarks
The Indian Man & Tillbury with Spiritual Grounds- Injun Head
The Big House called West Cliffe:
Tillbury: 1960-1968................................................................................4
My Grandfather, Norman: The Man Behind My Inner Strength....... 4
Lunch with Beggage-Water................................................................ 6
Me, Grandpa and the Gennip Tree ............................................... ..6
The Sour-Sops Trees that Line Common Pond ................... ...7
West Cliffe: The Calaban
- Miss Emma with her Grand Pickney Them ..............................8
The Mourning Dove ............................................................................ .9
Black Gate ..................................................................... ....................... ...9
Chapter Two .............................................................. Page 10-14
1990: It Was April; It Was Easter; Another Easter ......... 10
April: 1990 .................................................................. .............10
"I Was With Child; However Something Was Terrible Wrong:
I Could Hear The Owl Again"...............................10
The Bond That Binds Us:
He who comes in the Hours of Darken-ness........... 10
Walking into the Garden with God Part I
Who is she? [In a silhouette, is actually, Who Is Me?] To be omitted
May - Any May, Any Year:
Connecting - From the Corner of my mind; I looked
A Place Called Negril; My Home .........................11
The Time:
"Setting: Recreating a time and place I knew intimately."
Remembering A Place In Time I Knew ............................ 12-14
Saying Good bye to Innocence and to Childhood; not Forgotten
Remembering my childhood Friend Mel who died of Measles- 1966
West Cliffe; The Place I called Home; The Place I walked Alone
Chapter Three ....................................................... Page 15-24
Me and My Childhood Sickness: 1964-1966.....................15-17
In Memories of Mel...It was Summer of 1965................... 18
My Endometriosis....................................19 -20
My First Day of School: 1962............21-22
Memories....................................................23
Wisdon.........................................................24
Chapter Four ......................................................... Page 25-32
Who Is My Sister Doreen? What is the True Colours of Paulette?..........25
No Sisterly Bonding. Never Was, never Will be
The Stage Has Been Set
- 'A Family of Strangers; that's what we are'................... 26
Paulette; Not My Father's Child ............................................ 27-28
My Mother- My Father's Queen ........................................... 29
Who's Junior ................................................................................ 29
1977- Paulette's Shocking Words To Daddy................ 30
Two Married Women Fighting over a Young Stud:
---- Sydney Reynolds.................................................................... 31
My Sister Babbeth.................................................................. 32
My Brother Kevon.................................................................. 32
Chapter Five ......................................................... Page 33-44
The Queen of Hearts
How many hearts have I stolen? ............................... ........33
The Queen of Hearts. There's no King of Diamond:
--Unparalleled Life's........................................ 33
List of Men whose Heart I Broke ........................................ 34
Start Counting- Stop Counting..................................34-35
Faith Fate and Faithless
Coming Out of the Darkness:....................................................36
How it all started:.............................................................36-40
The words: Gunmen and Kidnapped ......................40
What? Yes, I Have To Tell It: The Cousin Who Sold Me Out.......41
Dirty Secrets That Must Be Told:....................................................... 42
The Years Women Should Fear: 29, 29 and 39 ........43
No Little Darling for the Cradle: ..........................................43
"I See: All the Flower's Went to the Graveyard;
There Was None For My Wedding"................................... 44
When God created Eden; He was in Negril .....................................44
West Cliffe; The Place I called Home; The Place I walked Alone
Chapter Six ................................................................. Page 44-49
The Woman Called My Mother:
This year was 1969 .................................. ....... 44
1990-1993: From the Outside Looking In .............. 46
Re-evaluation .......................................................... 46
Shame and Secrets .................................... ........46
My father Named Me ~ Noamie ............................ ......47
Who Poison My father- Who Decided His fate? ....... 48
"What is it that a man should profit by gaining the world, but loose his soul"
I, My Brother's Keeper - I, The Family Strength ...... 49
September 2001: ..................................................................49
I Went Home and Did What I Had to Do
I Heard My father's Footsteps
The Light Stayed Lit in The Passageway
A Moment of Pride; Daddy's Little Girl .........49
Chapter Seven ................................................................. Page 50-56
Life Is Not Always What Its Adds Up To Be...................50
Winning! ...................................................................... 50
From The Corner of My Mind
Understanding .............................. 51
- Intellectual Understanding
- Spiritual Understanding
Cause and Affects ..................... 52
1960-Easter ............................. ...52
Going back to 1978 ..................53-54
Don't Hate Me- I'm No Puppet: ............55
I Never Promise You a Flower Garden, Only a Rose
The Effect .................................... 56
Chapter Eight ................................................................. Page 57- 59
My Father's Bride; The Unfaithful Wife............... 57
Egos....................... 58
Family pride- Family Culture ............... 58
Level of Satisfaction'; Measured: ...... 59
Chapter Nine ................................................................. Page 60-64
My Mother's Evil:...................................60
Acceptance.......................... 60
Trekking Through Nompriel Mountain At 4:00AM To Feed A swine...61
Finally Speaking Out.............................. 62
Going Home 1990 ............................ 62
Connecting the Bloodline ................ 63
Tillbury- December 1998: .............. 64
West Cliffe; The Place I called Home; The Place I walked Alone
Chapter Ten ................................................................. Page 65-69
My Father - Berrisford A. Bremmer ................................65- 66
1970: .............................................................67-68
BLANK............................................................69
Chapter Eleven ............................................................ Page 70 -75
How I Conquered, And overpowered This Evil ..................70
Witchcraft And its Powers ........................................70
Escaping into the mental World:
Seeing the Work of Obeah First- Hand ............. .. 71-72
October 14, 1979: The Death of Grandpa .........73-74
Tribute to Grandfather Norman Black ..................75
Chapter Twelve ............................................................ Page 76 -80
__The Sweet Bitter Love of Childhood __
August 12, 1968 - Leaving Tillbury .....................76
Morning Time: 1964-1968 .................................. 77
The English Family Had Arrived ........................... 78
Looking Back- Digging Day, 1964-65 ............... 79-80
Chapter Thirteen ......................................................... Page 81 -85
Good-byes- The Tragedies of Two men ........................ ....... 81
November 13, 1980 * November 13, 1979 ........ 81-82
A Christmas Story ..............................83-84
Christmas Poem - 1964 ................ 84
Memoirs of Zelfa .............................. 85
Chapter Fourteen ........................................................ Page 86 -93
The Blending of The Tourist Negril and Our Negril .............. 86-87
__Jamaica my Jamaica __ ........................ 86
The Blending of the Old Negril ................... 87-88
The Negril of Bye-Gone Days ................... 89
GQ & Esquire ............................... 89
Negril: White Hall Estate ........... 90
Llantrisanth:..................................... 90
The Emergence of Today Negril and More ....................90-91
What Is Beauty? ............................................92
Who Could Forget Hall's Transport:
Good Old Dependable Hall Transport ........... 93
1950: A Time When Hall Transportation,
The Only bus Company on the Island .............................93
~A Song Of The Times~
West Cliffe; The Place I called Home; The Place I walked Alone
Chapter Fifteen ............................................................ Page 94-100
The Men Who Brought Negril to Its Heights ............................ .........94-95
The Seventies- The Man -Cosmo Brown ...................................... 96
The Seventies- The Man -Cosmo Brown & Daddy ....................96
The Legend- William Lindsay ..............................................................98
~A Dedication to William Lindsay ~
The Changing of the Guards- New Negril ....................................................100
Chapter Sixteen ........................................................... Page 101-112
Behind the Great mask- Where Two Roads Meets .........................101
A New Era .................................................................101
Welcome to the Real Deal: Reality ...............102-103
~ A Serious Dialogue Written in the Jamaican Dialect~
1976: The Beginning of The Sen-si-mena Orange Hill Ganja Trade .....104
Pots of Gold................................................................................... 104-112
Rich, It was Splash, Splash and Splash ............................104
Where Two Roads Meets...Why here?
Smugglers Moon~ A Touching Story- Highly Emotional ....... 109
Chapter Seventeen ....................................................... Page 113-126
Finally, Out of His Mouth Cometh Truth ........................113
Going back to Another Time: 1990 ................................114
The Power of Evil: Daniel 8 ....................................... 115-119
Abandonment: Drugs-Ganja-Obsession- et al.; ...........120
The Grandmother ..................................... 121
Why the Driving Anger: ......................... 122
The Rage From Within .......................... 123-124
The Cultural Side of Me; My Path that Takes me to Me .....125
Dearest Miss Laurel Barrett- A Remembrance ....................126
Chapter Eighteen .......................................................... Page 127-129
Jealousy & Happiness...............................127
Questioning Her About My Birth ................128-129
Chapter Nineteen ......................................................... Page 130-136
My Reason for Tracking My Birth & Life ................................... 130-130
Predictions of My God-mother; Miss Addie ......................130
1990 in the Hours of Darkness ..................131
Light-Post Along The Way ..............................131
~Indeed- The Road That God us Here~
Predictions of Miss Laurel Barrett ............132
West Cliffe; The Place I called Home; The Place I walked Alone
My Father's Grave...............................................................133
Why I Use My Mother's Best Towel To Wash My Fathers' Grave,
And Laugh About It
My First 23 Years of Pain .................................... 133
Taking My Husband to See My Fathers Grave
for The First Time ......................................................133
The Day November 1980 .......................... 133
Picture of My Brother Honey Sitting on
Daddy's Casket ................................................ 133
2001: September- Going Back .................................... 133
It Was Easter of 1969: It Was A Time of Sadness .............................134
I walked That Lonely Black Night; That Dark Lonely Road ...134
It was Badly Beaten By My Mother; My Arm Appears Broken ....134
Easter; Easter -It will Always Be At Easter ............................................135
Part II 1980- It Was a Time of Sadness ..........................135
1980: November 13 ..........................................................135
I Arrived Home For My Father's Funeral
My Father Passed Away November 11, 1980
November 15: 1980 ................................................................135
The Message My Father had Left For me
A Message of Full-fillment
A Father Who Knew More of Me than I thought He Knew
My Secret Places; I Smile
November November; No Coincident:
The Day Dr. Molyneaux Gave Me My Birthday Card; The Day We Buried Daddy
The Sun was setting; The Coffin Was Lowered
From A distance I Heard A Cry: My Son, My Son; I Need to See My Son
Unspoken Words
I Would Have Admired His Guts: My Grandfather Kaya
The Setting Sun- Another Time Another Place
It Was A lived Life
The Circle.......................................................................................136
West Cliffe; The Place I called Home; The Place I walked Alone
Chapter Twenty......................................................... Page 137-140
My 1993 Pregnancy; My Private Agony ......................... 137
_ Predictions of The Times - My Timing by Reverend T.D. Jakes
_ Predictions of My God-Father ~ Father Knight ~ ................138
_ Predictions of My Life
My Godfather /My Godmother ................................ 138
The Sister Who Broke my Father's heart, just before his death:
~Why he cried~ ........................138
Hello Heaven Send Me An Angel ............................... 139
Having a Spiritual Mind; I See The Soul ....................140
~ My Son~
~My Son & Me~
Take The Name of Jesus With You; Child of Sorrow and of Pain
Another Place Another Time- I Am In The Garden with God ............ 141
Strep-Appearing' into the Garden:........................ 142
Taking me back to another time, another place ...................142
Voices: .............................142
Going back into the garden- Clear Reasoning:.........................143
The difference between the Spiritual and the Physical .......143
Hello Heaven Send me a BMW; Lord I Could Use One .....144
~ Going into the Garden~ "Into the garden where Jesus went to Pray..."
The Innocence of A Child- Born Without Fear: ......................145
Death and Dying: ................................................145
Waking up this morning .................145
The Power of God. The Power of the Mind........146
Orange Hill & Summer of 1965 ...........................................................147
~Who can remember the Gennip Tree & the Beautiful
Poinsetta Tree by Miss Winsome shop in Orange Hill?~
I Remembered the Summer Uncle Pappa Woolcock Died: .... 147-148
1990: Remembering Uncle Arthur Johnson ........................ 149
Remembering Uncle Arthur's Cane Field ................................. 149
The Hours of Darken-ness-When the Evil Calls ..........................150
1990 May: ...................................................150
The Night the Fallen-Angel came to sit on top of the roof-Grandmother's House
1965: On The Road From Retirement- The Rolling Calf ................. 151
What Jamaicans Called Obeah: ..............................................152
Blessed Child of God ............................................................. 153
Remembering Wiltie Johnson- " I t was you who call me' Noam "......154
West Cliffe; The Place I called Home; The Place I walked Alone
About the Author /Afterwords ............................................ ......... 155-157
My Biography
Afterwords
Forever Gratitudes
Back Cover- Grandmother Emma Black ~ The Mother I Knew!
Special Gratitude to all the individuals who provided the Beautiful Orchids, and some Rose displayed in the Book
To Dr. Paracme, [not his real name] Eric Von Zipper, Barbara, Selvin, and many others for their support and inspiration throughout the years.
To my Husband Brad and to My Beloved Son who stood by me through the rough times.
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