A Cultural Theoretician's Journey © 2023 Podcast 175 ISBN979-8-89238-508-4

1. With 42 years of experience, as a retired Administrative Officer I researched Mark Twain's assertion "Age is an issue of mind over matter," If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.” highlighting the merging of nature and culture in shaping values, beliefs, and practices started a new chapter for me. This nuance has activated  my cognition into thinking that nature and culture merge, influencing values, beliefs, norms, practices, livelihoods, knowledge, and languages. This is a theory which  has motivated me to preserve Barbados' culture through the use of photographic images and text and make sense of abstract reality. This tool enabled me to make sense of the world in terms of ideas by research and reasoning process to the extent that  I am now the first Barbadian author to self-publish 312 Cultural Books 28 of which are Cultural Novels. According to academia.edu my books are impacting global citizens in 147 countries, 1,532 cities, and 718 international universities between 1995-2022.  Academia.edu  also  invited me to review academic letters.  According to Buzzsprout https://www.buzzsprout.com/429292 My 174 podcasts, translated into Finn, Spanish, and Ukraine language, impact global citizens in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, and Oceania, and featured on 24 international platforms between 2019 and 2023. 
2. I must confess cognitive thinking certainly enhanced my understanding and decision-making, influencing my personal growth as a cultural theoretician, license cultural practitioner, as a Barbadian author with 312 E-Publications. My Recent Books are an anthology consisting of six volumes, 108 chapters, 246 pages, and a podcast with 174 episodes.This photo essay showcases 124 images of nature in Barbados' cultural landscape, including animals, art, artefacts, beach scenes, flowers, historical buildings, monuments, people, plants, rugged coastal lines, and sunsets.This philosophy has significantly influenced my method of capturing and framing nature images within the cultural landscape of Barbados are presented to various stakeholders, including the National Cultural Foundation, Minister of Culture, Department of Archives, and Library Services. I am currently writing publication 313titled "Doctrine Is Part of The Christian Culture," ISBN978-976-97146-9-4 which delves into the qualities, times, places, and people of the Christian culture.

Let me close with a letter penned by Dr. Sue Henderson, former President of New Jersey City University, “Dear Mr. Gittens Thank you for sharing the impressive work you are doing. Please accept my congratulations on this achievement. The number of publications that you produced and the extent to which your writing has reached so many individuals in universities and countr

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