Monthly Archives: November 2025

FMM 11 28 2025 Beatification

“The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your […]

FMM 11 21 2025 With Hearts and Hands and Voices

“Ring the alarm, another sound is dying, woh-oh, hey!” ~ Clive ‘Tenor Saw’ Bright. Music has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember.  My father, being proudly Welsh and therefore a singer, led the church choir wherever he was the minister.  But it wasn’t only hymns we sang.  In […]

FMM 11 14 2025 Hot Chocolate and Heated Seats

“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice, he is the worst.” ~ Aristotle. When I was in my mid thirties (half a lifetime ago!), I was officially promoted from direct care nurse to administration.  In nursing, the most demanding, least rewarding position is that of ‘Nurse Manager’.  […]

FMM 11 7 2025 The Greatest of These

“We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike” ~ Maya Angelou. The recent visit of Hurricane Melissa to Jamaica has, in addition to the human suffering and devastating loss of property and agriculture, resulted in the destruction of the historic town of Black River, a town whose existence was noted on a map […]