Monthly Archives: July 2025
FMM 7 25 2025 Writing my Truth
“Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.” ~ Alice Walker. It hit me this week that I am not familiar with my children’s (now adults) handwriting. It was when I was reading over something my father had written in 1992 about the town I grew up in, in Jamaica. Those […]
FMM 7 18 2025 No Trouble
“Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division.” ~ John Lewis. One of the most important things we teach our children, in almost every culture that I know of, is to be polite, to have manners. Even before kids learn their […]
FMM 7 11 2025 Body Language Included
“Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.” ~ Wole Soyinka. There is something in the light of a Jamaican pre-dawn. For those who leave a country and live away from it for many years (at this point, many decades), there are things […]
FMM 7 4 2025 Ode to Joy
“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” ~ Emily Dickinson. After seven days of activities and events here in Jamaica that have produced so many moments of joy, I am not sure how I will report on them in just one post. But perhaps I can tempt your senses with […]
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