With our mud we are all the same colour
on George Hamilton (Jamaica), 27/Sep/2011 01:39, 34 days ago
Finding mud and dirt were a challenge for an Internet browser, however in real life they just come to you , no questions asked.This special Spring Vale red Jamaican mud on my shirt was probably on its way to being loaded up by heavy excavation and mining equipment with tons of other indistinguishable bauxite ore, shipped off far away from their home and native Jamaica, and then incinerated by foreigners at thousands of degrees centigrade, just to be made into boring aluminum. Luckily, I intercepted and saved it.Here's a photo of my shirt that may or may not come clean ever. From Wendy Lee's blog: http://wendyinjamaica.blogspot.com/To get photos of muddy clothers, I thought that I only needed to pull up a photo of the English international rugby team who used to wear a completely white outfit and play in a country with really bad rainy weather. And there I would easily get mud-spattered clothing. (I should have been patriotic and picked the Scottish rugby team because Scotland has worse weather than England, however mud would not show up as well against their darker colored rugby clothing. I tried hard lads, but I couldna' find anything suitable).I had no luck for at least two good reasons - the English rugby team would always pose before they started playing so would be spotlessly clean. And even if they did not, the people who looked after the grass playing surface performed such excellent work that it was 100% turf with no bare patches that could turn into useful mud sources for the blog.Muddy pictures are becoming fewer and further between because at the highest sports levels the games tend play in huge covered stadiums with artificial turf.Baseball players have great fun diving into the mud and dirt - they call it sliding, but we know they are having fun.Ty Cobb arriving safely at 3rd base. An old photo, that's why there's real dirt.Children in India enjoying rain and mud.More muddy waters, but of a human type, "Muddy Waters", born as McKinley Morganfield, an American blues musician, and ranked by Rolling Stone as #17 in the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. (Source Wikipedia).Jamaica can have its muddy days too, especially after hurricanes.With our mud we are all of the same ethnicity. Who wants to clean off the mud and return to being different?Some corporations might want to clean you off for their own selfish vested interests.But there will always be work for them to do. So we should just relax and enjoy it as in the old English song "Mud, mud, glorious mud, there's nothing quite like it for cooling the blood." Well my blood certainly got cooled that afternoon in Spring Vale.I narrowly escaped catching a cold, but I was saved by the warming cups of soup dished out by the Hash House Harrier executive to us all.