Monthly Archives: January 2024

FMM 1 26 2024 Be on the Look Out!

“Doubt everything. Find your own light.” ~ attributed to The Buddha. When I was growing up, I was introduced to a weird way of earning good luck. Or was it a way to avoid bad luck? I had already learned of one superstitious practice, to throw salt over your left shoulder to prevent bad luck.  […]

FMM 1 19 2024 Don’t throw it all away!

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” ~ Mary Oliver. It has been said that travel broadens the mind. The thing about cliches is that they are often true, but repetition has rendered them trite.  On my recent visit to Jamaica I was reminded that when […]

FMM 1 12 2024 Going with the Flow

”All night, all day.Angels watching over me.” ~ (Trad). Although I was brought up in the church, I can’t say that the usual vision of heavenly angels was something I actively believed in.  Like fairies, elves and gnomes, they seemed to be a little too fantastical to be real.  Thus, the concept of life after […]

FMM 1 5 2024 In-Valid

“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.” ~ Socrates. Time, they say, is relative.  The vacation that stretched ahead of me a few weeks ago is rapidly coming to an end and we will soon leave Jamaica.  I have to remind myself that there was a […]