Monthly Archives: October 2018
FMM 10 26 18 Suspending Disbelief
“Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure.” ~ John Legend. I remember as a child learning to be polite, to appear interested even when bored. Being a ‘parson’s kid’ meant not saying the first thing that popped into your head but instead admiring that […]
FMM 10 19 18 Night Vision
“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi. My father loved words. Until dementia stole his cognitive sharpness he would read for hours, do obscure crossword puzzles, play Scrabble with my mother. Like some of us on Facebook, he would become annoyed by little […]
FMM 10 12 18 Who am I?
“Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.” ~ John Donne. When I left Jamaica in the mid 70’s, I hadn’t heard the word ‘Soca’ used to describe the music we associated with those small islands of the Caribbean. It was Calypso music back then, and we mostly heard it in a 5-minute block […]
FMM 10 5 18 Greatest Good
“The countenance of one man brighteneth another; Iron sharpeneth iron” ~ Joseph Hill, Culture. I have never doubted the power of the mind. My mother was a strong believer in mind over matter. It mostly had to do with you ignoring all of those things you wanted to use as excuses not to get a […]
Friday Morning Messages 