WOW Welcome O Welcome - Hazel writes

WOW Welcome O Wonderful Brother Joe to this particular Electronic Mail Exchange..

Scroll down and see the familiar Gate you walked through in the Arms of Your/My Our Mama November 1951...when she brought you home from Zanzibar Hospital after she "Gave Birth" .. to you .. It was the happiest Day of my life to see you .. in Our Home WE did not build that House or own it but it was Home..till l sadly ....on April 11 1964..you were forced to leave it .. and go live in Mombasa as a Refugee..from the wrath of angry wounded citizens born to fith genration .."Natives" asnad maybe some furhter back were direct descendants of the "aboringinal" peoples... who lived there 2000 years ago as described by The earliest ARAB Trader adventuer/ sailors explorers from Oman..Sinbhad ? or others known to Roman Greeks Phoenicians.. all part of Ancint Civilian Cities..

NOW.. stands for NATIONAL Org of Women USA and HERE we are today.. You me the Others not ..."My brothers."
HERE .I stand rather I sit as I pound the keyboard as once I did the piano. I never went past "Sarter" Beginner level in either..
I am ....ONE Woman named Hazel and I am communicating with One Woman named Yvette in Nova Scotia where you spent a couple of years..!! as Executive for WORKERS COMP ( as it was then known)
She called for Peace in a time of stress distress conflict and complexity "raging" like seas in a Hurricane in the Blizzards of the Arctic.
As the Hymn she quotes stated when I first sang it in "A ME R I C A" ..1980's I think The lyrics were
With God as Our Father Brothers all are we ..
-Baba Yetu.. MUNGU KUU Bhagwan Jehovah Supreme Most Holy First Cause..Source Summit.. and SONS only were In Charge..

Then came The First Woman sister/aunty/daughter Wife ... seeking her "CIVIL RIGHT" (the suffragettes had hard earned) to VOTE ..
and yes we saw HER in QE11, INDIRA Gandhi, Benazir Bhutto, Margaret Thatcher. and now the Preseident of TAN ZANia. ..

SHE makes her Voice SAUTI ya UNGUJA heard representing all of that FACE RACE ..seen in the UNO...

Different faces different races..with different
KPZ is abbrev for Karibuni Paradise Zanzibar Welcome to Paradise Zanzibar.? For us it is Welcome BACK .. what is that in Swahili and You will remember there was no written Language we could read when we were there It was in ARABIC but later Julius Nyerere Liek Julius Caeasr favored the ROMAN alha Bet.. Maybe Greeks India and Chinese will have their translations soon...of stories told in 1900 before Our Family ( First Aunty Sylvia Pinto as wife of Dr Eugene Menezes..arrived in Zanzibar. ..to become Mother of Erlich Romola and Orlando Armando and the youngest who grew up with us.. ) The Youngest is always the last, least known especially when immigration migration or exile take plaace.. with no hope or desire to return to the Place of birth ( Nativity) Natalie..or origin..Fatherland.. The first is the location through Maternity.. Blood shed and sometimes fife lost by her..."SHE who gave birth" but Fatherland is by Name recognition Village Town or City.. City of David is Home of St Joseph for whom you were named. You other Saints Names John Agnel can also be identified by Cities and Towns..or a Shrine as is Pillar Goa Home of Padre Agnel to whom Mom went in Pligrimage while she was pregnant with you in April- June 1951..before we all returned to Zanzibar to take up residence in VUGA..

With Mary our Mother MOM Maters all are we..She alone is Mater Dei ..but we can also be Marte Martha like Our Mom.. busy and anxious about many things like the siter of Lazarus or Martyrs .. who shed RED blood .. when killed for their Faith or practice of religion
WHITE " Pure and simple " before they were killed as was Jesus for 33 years.. and BLUE .. every shade of blue as ..is every singer songwriter singing the blues.. living in Blue Hawaii or travellign in JumboJets to perform in a city far from their birth places..like every Modern Singing Superstar we know and try to imitate ..!

There is something about seeing the Prgnant Rihana suspended mid stadium on SUPER Bowl Sunday..
Other Great Stars have performed.. in various spectacular ways, plays and days...of Festivity.. but it is the response of the audience, the viewers the judges the critics.. that makes receptivity as critical if not more so..than Performance.. My children are both Recording and performance artists.. They loved creating and making their own CD's adn using technology to improve sound for listen to at their leisure.. They can "Master" how a CD can sound adn be heard ..in wireless communication. It is however face to face in small cafes and Church Halls Summer Fairs with folks walking by children crying or shouting with laughter that I knew them best..so long ago in time..

We are all passing away passing on and maybe even passed out from having a great party the day before..but most assuredly we are fading from sight and memory of those who knew us as Teenagers or younger..

This Forum is so special to me because it was created by Adolph and Benito who lived in Vuga with His Sister Big Yvette ( just couple of years apart ) when you snd I, Your Big Sister 9 years older (O MY!) lived there with them.

Together we can tell our children. Her son Joseph the great Teacher living close to you My Bro Joe in the Far West of Canada and My Son Joseph (now in HOLYYWOOD USA ) while She and I live through what we have live in The FarEast of North America. Here Joy Sorrow Glory are remembered in Perpetual Light Shining The Limelight, Spotlight, Searchlight always near us is that of a LIGHTHOUSE looking out for "a beloved" that went out in one day and never came home that night But then by the "DAWN"S early light" we see again the Beloved smiling and having a good time with a Couple of friends..waving to the folks anxiously looking out ..

As we have several Fishing afficiandaos who grew up in Zanzibar... they will understand.. You of course Liv in Vancouver the sea all around you.
Imagine a large ship leaving - with friends on board and the friends never returning for days, months or years. Then one day.. an even larger Luxury Crusie Liner arrives with that " Boy" or "girl "who left home as we sang
Red Sails in the Sunset.. or ..
VyaCondios My Darling or..
Now is the Hour..!
A shipload of merry warblers dancing and singing .. has members of the families of .The Mendes - DaSilva, De Souza DeSa ...Desai Doshi Gadjaria.. Percy Gundevia.. Nick and George Fernandes.. and a couple of PINTOS!
so let there be Peace while we sing ..
We are the World ... WEE are the Children!

who never knew - why or when or how they came to be...
We are Forever ..and Ever !Yours truly !..
and yes Unruly as.. we fight - for right to end the plight .."
etc etc..

( sadly sometimes we are on opposing sides..! across a Long Very Long Border)
so Fight for what is Right
and Write for what is "Light " .. Happiness and Peace..
In Joy and Love

Hazel (The NUT ! hard to crack but de light full.. inside..)

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Dear Yvette, and Hazel and others on the KP Zanzibar site

First Yvette,

Thank you very much for starting the thread “LET THERE BE PEACE ON EARTH’”. I know exactly what stimulated you to write the piece and the “bombardment that came in emails from several people”. ( I must say the bombardment came from only one email – although I know of at least one other who has cause to feel similarly to the person who wrote that email) I have remained quiet for over 24 hours whilst watching the reaction. And right enough my dear friend, Yvette who signs off as [Dinosaur teacher SJCSZ], is really pacifist at heart. You call for cool heads. Although you taught me when I was young, I must say you failed to inculcate your calm pacifist values on me. I turned out to be an activist and that is what you have seen in my emails. Above all when I see somebody being treated unfairly or unreasonably, I will fight tooth and nail to right the wrong. That then is my core value system.

Now getting back to your original email which started this thread. I must say I found the sketch of “St Joseph’s Zanzibar” with the date written ‘2021’ on the plinth of the Statue and signed off “ With love from Yvette de Souza-Muise, SJCS, Canada” very well done. May I ask how big is the original sketch/painting?
Is it in watercolour on paper, and then fine ink pen?
Where is the original kept?

Personally, I think a printed copy (framed) should find its way to be presented to those who manage the primary asset – namely the St Joseph’s Cathedral in Zanzibar.

Second Hazel

You know I always enjoy reading your family history and the remarkable detail you have of your early life. What I did learn from your present email was Your family lived above the Post Office building (1949-51)
Then the family moved to “The Dr De Souza residence” VUGA (1951…1963?) The year your family vacated that residence is important to me, because after that date I think my family moved into that residence
I did not know that the plan was for you and Elaine, your elder sister, to “ travel together to Maria Assumpta Teacher Training Center in Kensington UK in Early Childhood Montessori Method” in 1958. Instead, you went to Makerere at the age of 15 -presumably to do a pre-university program prior to be admitted into the BA Hons program in 1962?

Please correct me if my interpretation of 2 and 3 are incorrect.

As you have by now worked out, I am going to Zanzibar for three days this July with my brood if 12. On one morning I am going to show them the various paces I lived within the Stone Town. I recently had to describe the “Dr Souza residence -Vuga” so that the person preparing my itinerary for that day gets permission from the present occupants for me to see their home. No one now knows the original name to the residence. I was told to describe it as the only residence on that street which has a gate in the front. This is a photo of me standing in front of that house in July 2007.

Adolph de Sousa

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From: Hazel Cardozo <cedarsel@yahoo.com>
Date: Wednesday, 15 February 2023 at 12:41 am
To: Benito De Souza <bennydesouza@btinternet.com>, Adolph De Souza <adolphdesousa@hotmail.com>, Bennydesouza' via Kpzanzibar <kpzanzibar@googlegroups.com>, Yvette Muise <ymmuise@ns.sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: KPZ: explaining……LET THERE BE PEACE ON EARTH

Dear Yvette

I was sent an e mail and saw on TV that 33 days from ...it will be the Feast of SAINT Joseph Santa Josef San Jose..

as A) HUSBAND of.. !!!!

B) Patron of the Whole Entire Universal Church

and

33 days after that May 1 Saint JOSEPH the WORKER of Workers Paradise Canada He is the Patron of the Church whole entire nation/ Dominion Commonwealth as it extends in every diraction from the TOP of Mount Royale Montreal

It is the counter claim the anti dote... to the OTHER Place where "WORK is Happiness' is the Motto in Cast Iron still there

at the Entrance to AUSCHWITZ where millions of Jews, a few Catholics Polish Priests and "Undesirables" ( un able to work or having social mental or emotional "defects" were put out of their Misery !( went past "PARADISE"

straight into Heaven .. Imagine if we had a Permanet Five Star Floating restaurant.. over that space.. Elie Wesel came to this Town to tell us personally how it felt to b in Auschwizt when he was ten years old... He visited the City again as a 60 + yar old and asked the persons in the Apartments next door if they saw and hear anything..!! The response was shocking! One lady said she was a little girl and recalled her Mom weeping and unable to function and her Dad saying there was nothing they could do as The "FORCE" Demonic and diabloic was too great .. and so after a week or so the Mom returned to doing her DUTY !

So too no doubt with every such CONFLICT we have heard about read about and now see LIVE transmitted as it happenes from wherebver it is happening and then we have Our MEMORIES and RE Collection of Photos.. Events etc etc so we - The St Joseph Goans of Zanzi CanaD's of The UK Of Australia, USA Portugal Brazil ..etc etc have decided and have acted to tell all the world

Our MEMORIES at age -ten . 8-12 really really shape who we ( our younger classmates friends cousins adn NEIGHBORS..become at 60 70 80

I was 8 when We the Family lived above the Post Office 1949- 195i May

I was nine when we moved to TheDr De Souza residence VUGA 1951...

1954 I began 9th Grade High school aged 12....

1955- 1956 wasmy last year with my "Other Half" of Our SJCS ZAN "Twin Sister" Elaine.! ..

1957-58 She aged 16 waited for me to finish so we could travel together to Maria Assumpta Teacher Training Center in Kensington UK in Early Childhood Montessori Method.

It was not to be.

I was offered the Makerere College Place and with my Parents ( mostly Dad ) willing to sign off on it as I was only 15.

Mom was very nervous as she had never been to College .. Her final year in school marred by Typhoid contracted on a vacation in GOA had her near death for months... and recovery took a year .. There was no treament or vaciine avilable then Much like Covid 2019

So that was it she took her experience to Canada - strating life in Niagara Falls with her Wedding to a Kampala -Goa Kenya -Goan

First Baby in Vancouver..!

My Wedding was In Mombasa to a Zanzibar-Mombasa Goans formed into COMMUNITY by the Same Bishops Priests and Nuns. Mr Siglinda had moved to Taita Hills Convent when we met her years later

so dear Yvette ..

Keep the Fires of Divine Love going

Your Cup Overflowing

Your Heart and Soul filled with the SOUND

of Beautiful Music of Peace on Earth and what wonderful world

that goes round and around ..

Hazel

On Tuesday, February 14, 2023 at 08:45:32 AM EST, Yvette Muise <ymmuise@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:

Hi Guys, you might be wondering why I wrote this, yesterday. It was because of the bombardment that came in emails from several people. It just made me wonder. My cup runneth over.

Love and blessings.

Yvette

RESENDING….Y

Begin forwarded message: 

LET THERE BE PEACE ON EARTH

My dearest FRIENDS, from once upon a time idyllic Zanzibar, where we were so lucky to have been pupils of SJCSZ , and where we received the best education and the roadmap for attaining peace and harmony that would last forever and a day.

Then came the glitch from 1964 and our idyllic Shangri La disbursed everyone, but did not break us. God was, and is , with us. The disbursement turned out to be a blessing in disguise… just go around the world and see for yourself. St Thomas the apostle, St Francis Xavier, the Precious Blood Sisters, the Holy Ghost Fathers, our parents gave us the crème de la crème. Let us never forget this.

Today, the world is torn being torn apart by senseless wars, threats and posturing by people who have lost the true meaning of LOVE, as we watch helplessly the senselessness of it all. The earthquakes of Turkey and Syria is more than devastating. What are we waiting for?

Our parents, our school, our society, did not teach us to be mean spirited, aggressive, or vengeful. Some of the progeny of SJCSZ have been blest with higher than average intellect, and others with the biggest hearts in the world through music, art, science, medicine and everloving generosity. Don’t let petty-mindedness , pride, and posturing, upset the apple-cart. These are contrary to our upbringing.

Instead, let us embrace each other’s God-given gifts, and praise Him forevermore as best we can. Pretty please.
God bless.

All my love and blessings.
Yvette de Souza-Muise
[Dinosaur teacher SJCSZ]

Song of the day:-
Let There be Peace on Earth, and let it begin with me,
Let there be peace on earth the peace that was meant to be,
With God as our Father, brothers all are we,
Let me walk with my brother, in perfect harmony.
Let peace begin with me, let this be the moment now
With every step I take let this be my solemn vow,
To take each moment and live each moment in peace, eternally,
Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me.
LET IT BEGIN WITH ME.

Love you All …..

Yvette

P.S. Sorry some photos lost due to a technical hitch. Will restore soon. Thanks Benny