Monthly Archives: June 2023
FMM 6 30 2023 Finding Family
‘In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. ‘ ~Alex Haley. For most of my life I have lived apart from my nuclear family. Despite having numerous cousins on both sides, I have never lived close enough to bump into one in my neighborhood. In fact, most of […]
FMM 6 23 2023 Triggered!
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” ~ Viktor E. Frankl. I was not a child who could shrug off being teased. As the youngest I was particularly sensitive to being a step behind […]
FMM 6 16 2023 Cold Comfort Clichés Upcycled
“Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.” ~Norman Ralph Augustine. I learned more about muscle groups and their functions in the gym than I ever did in nursing school. To be honest, forty plus years ago, my hospital based nursing school had a system designed for you to learn on the wards, caring for real […]
FMM 6 9 2023 Sinking Sand
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.’ ~ Michelangelo. Growing up in the country is so different from the city. One major difference is that in the country you ‘call to’ everyone as […]
FMM 6 2 2023 Oh Really?
“This is what I want in heaven… words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.” ~ Tina Turner. I became a student of language when I moved to Jamaica from the UK as a child. Although English is the official tongue there, the first language of most Jamaicans is patois (‘patwah’); a wonderful blend […]
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