Monthly Archives: October 2024
FMM 10 25 2024 Sacred Footprints
“Ya running and ya running,But ya can’t run away from yourself.” ~ Robert Nesta Marley. It is hard to imagine now, but there was a time when photographs were scarce commodities. Cameras were not ubiquitous. Film was expensive, and you wouldn’t know until it was developed how the photos would turn out. My mother once […]
FMM 10 18 2024 Showdown!
“I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.” ~ Maya Angelou. One night this week I awoke from a dream that had a very clear message, so clear that I immediately texted myself (my method of […]
FMM 10 11 2024 Oh Canada!
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”~ Martin Luther King, Jr. I have links with Canada on both sides of my family tree. Many years ago, my great-grandparents (on my father’s side) decided to emigrate to Canada. This was their second migration. Earlier, shortly after they got […]
FMM 10 4 2024 If we Should Live up in the Hills
‘Oh, sinnerman, where you gonna run to?Sinnerman where you gonna run to?Where you gonna run to?All on that day.’ ~ Nina Simone. I was spoilt by growing up in a land of lyrical beauty. When Columbus reported back to Queen Isabella of Spain, about the lands he had ‘discovered’, he is said to have described […]
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