Louis VI

Missing my true home. 🇩🇲 This time last year my friends Dad, a true Rasta, said to me as we walk through his eco farm:

“An American couple once came here and fell in love with the place; they offered me 2 million USD to buy it. I told them to follow me and I took them to the Sous (natural spring) on my land and told them to drink. It was the freshest most alive water they’ve ever tasted. Cleaned not by chemicals but by life. I said, your money is not wealth, this is true richness. Abundant nature, clean fresh water from the land, and ital food from the ground you walk pon. We can be the richest people in the world if we leave Mother Nature to do her thing. Money can never buy this richness”

It’s awful to know and see behind this beauty there are forces at work to destroy it. Some people in the Government think money from extraction from the land is the answer, they hide permanent pollution and destruction of the land behind the word “development” which is a shame because if development is done properly, in a cutting edge and modern way that looks to the indigenous cultures of the past as well as the future, nature doesn’t need to suffer, it can flourish.

While the rest of the world is trying to undo the damage it’s done, will Dominicans recognise they already have the true richness that everybody else so desperately wishes they never let be lost?