"This is the story of my childhood in the little town of Bulawayo, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), a most beautiful country in the middle of Southern Africa.

It is the story of my schooling from three to twelve years old, as the only Jewish child at a St. Peter's Diocesan School, of the chapel. the nuns, the children, and my conflicts with Judaism and Christianity.

It is the story of our gracious colonial house surrounded by acres of garden, forests of jacaranda trees, vegetables, chickens, snakes and Bougainvillea; in the midst of the amazingly wilde open spaces of Africa.

It is the story of my two families - my immediate family of my mother who taught me to paint and named me Pamela, after her beautiful porcelain doll, and my father and brother who loved the excitement and adventure of Africa.

It is the story, too, of the larger family of the five people who lived and worked in our home. They endowed me with the Matabele culture, its songs, dances, and easy gentle body and soul communication.

it is the story too, of the two people within me.

This is the story of conflicts and love, of joy and anxiety.

it is the begining and fountian of my creativity." - Pamela Silver