Monthly Archives: June 2017
FMM 6 30 17 My White Life
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”~Joseph Campbell. I learned to ‘roll flour’ (make dumplings) at Beulah School All Age School, in Jamaica. The girls (no boys) had to help out in the kitchen, taking it in turns to do our part. The technique wasn’t too strange to me. I was an […]
FMM 6 23 17 Dry Lightning
“For if people do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”~Luke 23:31 At the end of the last century I traveled to England in June for a wedding. For weeks before the affair I begged my siblings who live there to tell me what kind of outfit to buy. […]
FMM 6 16 17 Pause for a Poem
“Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.”~Pablo Neruda. I traveled through London the day of the Moorgate Disaster, a crash of an underground train (London’s Tube) that killed 48 people. In fact I traveled by tube that day. My friend and I had to get across […]
FMM 6 10 17 Fret not, nor fear
“In a time of destruction, create something.”~Maxine Hong Kingston. I have never been fond of scary movies. I prefer to escape into a light comedy, to be amused for a while. I remember accompanying a friend to watch a couple of movies that were outside of my comfort zone (Jaws, and Carrie). For her punishment […]
FMM 6 2 17 Angels Watching Over Me
“We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.”~Anton Chekhov. In Jamaica, when you discover that you have put on your underwear inside out, it is said that you are chasing away ghosts (you a run duppy). Apparently ghosts get spooked easily, and that is one way to […]
Friday Morning Messages 