Category Global health and disparities
FMM 6 7 2024 Jamaica Medz
“Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh. I have always been a morning person, early to rise (also, early to bed!). It has never been a challenge for me to be up with the roosters, or even (as they say in Jamaica) before ‘cock put on ‘im […]
FMM 5 24 2024 A Ton of Bricks
“The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.” ~ Mark Twain. They say confession is good for the soul. I was an Elvis fan from early. You could say I had a celebrity crush on him, and even had a postcard sized head shot in black and white pinned on my […]
FMM 5 17 2024 Half the Story
“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” ~ Lao Tzu. Mother-daughter relationships are complicated. I have no idea why they have to be, but it is an altogether different vibe from mother-son connection. Having one daughter and three sons, I learned that early on. There was a […]
FMM 5 10 2024 Shaping Culture
“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~ Ray Bradbury. When I was very young, I was volunteered to be a model in a ‘mannequin parade’. This was a fashion show, and I don’t recall the details, but it may have been some kind of […]
FMM 5 3 2024 Our Cruise Ship Earth
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” ~ Desmond Tutu. This week has been a week of sudden memories, sparked by forgotten sensations. It reminded me that with childbirth and the sight of a newborn child, memories of the prior child are recalled clear and fresh, even […]
FMM 4 19 2024 The Rebel in Me
“I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.” ~ Sojourner Truth. They say you can’t go home again. I have always had a problem with that concept, mostly because I have been fortunate to call many places home in my life. A minister’s family (at least back in the day, […]
FMM 4 12 2024 What’s the Plan?
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.” ~ Joseph Campbell. I have never been good at long-term planning. I remember being surprised when a nephew of mine, who was maybe 21 at the time, declared that he would have to change his life plan due to an obstacle […]
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 […]
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