Monthly Archives: April 2023

FMM 4 28 2023 I would be True

“I would look up, and laugh, and love, and lift.” ~ Howard A. Walter. I want to say that my relationship with music began around the time I moved to Jamaica (which would be appropriate, though possibly not accurate).  My early days in Jamaica would usually end in music, since a television was not a […]

FMM 4 21 2023 Know better, Do better!

“The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.” ~ Coretta Scott King. My mother was one of those annoying parents/teachers who was never off duty.  She would be on your case in every way, checking on your posture, your behaviour, your manners, she never took a day […]

FMM 4 14 2023 What If?

“Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.” ~ Herodotus. I used to be an excellent worrier. I somehow felt that if I imagined all of the possible bad outcomes that could happen, then they wouldn’t happen.  It would be arrogance on my part (I […]

FMM 4 7 2023 Glimmers of Hope

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”~ Martin Luther King, Jr. Growing up in the church, you have lots of Bible stories to entertain you, many of them appealing to kids.  Picture animals marching two by two into a ship, as Noah gets ready for an apocalyptic flood.  Or Moses parting the […]