Category Food and health
FMM 8 19 16 Leading with the Heart
“One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.”~Knute Rockne I was not an athlete growing up. I longed to be an athlete. My father had won awards for his athletic prowess, following his brothers in all manner of sporting events. But I had team spirit. I cheered my team along. I […]
FMM 4 8 16 Breathtaking
“The poet doesn’t invent. He listens.” ~ Jean Cocteau. April is National Poetry Month. I heard a challenge on the radio, to create a poem based on the numbers in your zip code. Each line should contain the same number of words as the numbers in your zip code. Ever since I heard this challenge […]
FMM 4 1 16 Forged in Fire
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”~Ernest Hemingway. My mother once asked in wonderment: “How did I raise such strong women?” The irony of that question lay in the fact that she did not see herself as a strong woman. When I replied that we had her example to […]
FMM 3 25 16 Signs and More Signs
“Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.”~Friedrich Nietzsche. The human race is hung up on symbols. We judge each other by the cars we drive, the clothes we wear, the color of our skin. We make instant decisions about total […]
FMM 3 18 16 Running without being Weary
“You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience” ~Stanislaw Jerzy Lec. It is amazing how many lessons you can learn, if you are open to them. I admire organized people. People who plan, who prioritize, who make lists and assign certain slots of time per day to their commitments. We encourage […]
FMM 6 5 15 Pay Attention!
“Be curious, not judgmental”~ Walt Whitman. I am descended from a set of adventurers, on both sides of my family tree. Unlike those who declared they were off to ‘discover’ the world, I am pretty sure my great grandfathers were simply looking for opportunities to take care of their families. And so they boarded ships […]
FMM 2 27 15 Jamaica Calling
“As you move towards a dream, the dream moves towards you”~Julia Cameron. I live an overcommitted life. Most of the commitments are of my own making, others are a product of a society which requires payment for goods, and thus the need to work for a living. A few weekends ago one of my commitments […]
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