Monthly Archives: September 2018
FMM 9 28 18 Sipple out there
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ~ Maya Angelou. Jamaicans (and maybe many other people), tend to blame many of their symptoms on gas. Shoulder pain? Gas. Chest pain? Gas. Of course, the obvious ones like bloating and cramping, also gas. In England the term for passing gas (flatulence, […]
FMM 9 21 18 Do your Thing
“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” ~ Berthold Auerbach. One of the challenges of writing a message every Friday morning, is trying to knit together the variety of threads that catch my interest during the week. Some weeks random items come together in a harmonious message, eventually; at other times […]
FMM 9 14 18 Change the Lens
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” ~ Henry David Thoreau. Wales is known as the land of song. It is the land of my forefathers too; both of my parents were descended from men and women that lived in that historic piece of the United Kingdom. It is a […]
FMM 9 7 18 Raising the Bar
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” ~ Nelson Mandela. My father-in-law was a character. He was well known in the village where he lived, for he was loud, he did […]
Friday Morning Messages 