Monthly Archives: March 2024
FMM 3 29 2024 Killing me Softly
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” ~ Victor Hugo. Music has been a part of my life, probably since conception. When you grow up in the church, hymn singing is always going to be present, but in my family, we didn’t just listen to religious […]
FMM 3 22 2024 Simply the Best!
“Love is a friendship set to music” ~ Joseph Campbell. The other day I reread something my father had written. It was his tribute to and summary of his father’s life, on the 100th anniversary of his birth. This was a man I did not know, as he had died before I was born. I […]
FMM 3 15 2024 How Deep is your Love?
“I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.” ~ Harriet Tubman. My first brush with authority came when I was quite young, still living in England. I had been influenced […]
FMM 3 8 2024 Big Tree, Small Axe
“A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.” ~ Marcus Garvey. When I started high school in Jamaica, one of the highlights of this new experience was the ‘social’ also known as a ‘boogie’. I suppose at the time the twin influences of the […]
FMM 3 1 2024 I Give Up!
“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.” ~ W. C. Fields. I grew up in a church that followed the ecumenical calendar (I am not sure if that is the correct term, but it sounds good!), such as the lesser-known special […]
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