Tandieka’s future

Hello, it’s been 3 years since Tandieka passed, and they say time heals. I’m not so sure about that, even with being with someone new now. Tandieka will always have a special place in my heart and I will never forget her, and I will make it my mission to have her live on long after I am gone. In case anyone on here doesn’t know I published Tandieka’s memoir. ‘Guyanese Girl in Transition: Stories of Love, Hope, Faith, Fight and Survival. I did that close to the one-year mark of her passing.

    About two weeks before she passed, I told her my intent. And while, I can tell she was grateful, she was sad. I’ll never forget the look on her face. It broke my heart in that moment. Once I finally started, to my surprise I realized a lot of her posts on here made it into her book. The blog and the book were the same, I guess. She never spoke about her book or blog in great detail. Yes, I knew about it, she would talk about it, but I never pried beyond what she wanted to tell me. So, I had to find out a lot of things on my own. It was like that, because she never thought she would die so young. She assumed like all of us, we have all the time in the world, and that she would be the one publishing her own book when she felt the time was right.

    Also, and this was something I didn’t even dream of, until last year. I founded the Tandieka Purse company. I came up with the idea because the goal was to get more books in peoples hands. The book after all is the crown jewel of her life. So, my idea was, if someone buys a purse, they get a free Ebook. Even if the person that buys the purse doesn’t read it, then maybe they would give it to someone else who would, and that person would maybe hand it off to someone else. Tandieka believed, in the very core of her being, that her book would help others. That was her goal, she wanted her failures, her successes, her good judgements, and bad, to help others in their life. Her book is timeless. Fifty years from now what she says will still be relevant. 

    I’m also dreaming big, the main goal with the purse company is that it would fund a Tandieka Scholarship program, to help underprivileged kids get into school. I haven’t worked the details out, and in a perfect world my end goal would be to pay for everyone that wanted to go to school. That is not attainable yet.  But I am confident it will be done. In the meantime, please check out www.tandieka.com and YouTube. Tandieka’s audio book is available for free, and it’s narrated by her, thanks to the power of Ai. I’ve also been sending out the screenplay based off her book, with some good results. So hopefully, you might see an adaptation on the big screen. So yes, I’ve been busy. 

  So that’s the update, this site will remain active and up indefinitely. It’s what she would have wanted. So, thank you, please go to YouTube and listen to her book, (Link is below.) It’s so amazing having her be able to read it to you, just the way it should’ve been. 

Michal DeClemente