Category Inspirational
FMM 4 26 24 Style or Spoil?
“It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.” ~ Erma Bombeck. Recently I answered a question posed about uniforms (for or against). I shared that since I had worn uniforms for most of my childhood, and then for over thirty years of my adult life as […]
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 4 5 2024 Peaceful, Easy Feeling
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” ~ John Muir. I have often written of my family’s tradition of going camping in the summer. This was the cheapest way to get away from the city during the long summer holidays (or vacation, as they say in the US). My parents […]
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 […]
FMM 3 8 2024 Big Tree, Small Axe
“A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.” ~ Marcus Garvey. When I started high school in Jamaica, one of the highlights of this new experience was the ‘social’ also known as a ‘boogie’. I suppose at the time the twin influences of the […]
FMM 3 1 2024 I Give Up!
“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it.” ~ W. C. Fields. I grew up in a church that followed the ecumenical calendar (I am not sure if that is the correct term, but it sounds good!), such as the lesser-known special […]
FMM 2 23 2024 Act Three
“I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.” ~ Walt Mossberg. My father retired from full-time employment at the age of almost 66. At the time he was in fairly good health (although he had suffered a heart attack over a […]
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