Category Inspirational
FMM 5 17 19 Shape Shifting
“Whoever you are holding me now in hand, Without one thing all will be useless, I give you fair warning before you attempt me further, I am not what you supposed, but far different.” ~ Walt Whitman. Story-telling is in our bones, in our genes, in our blood. It is how we know who […]
FMM 4 12 19 Crowning Glory
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart” ~ Khalil Gibran. The other day I met up with someone I hadn’t seen for a while. And to be truthful, I did not immediately recognize her. She was an acquaintance rather than an old friend, and it was only through the […]
FMM 4 5 19 Distilled Spirits
“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.” ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. I was a late arriver to the gym scene. My husband took up jogging in the early years of our marriage, but I always told him I preferred to exercise my mind. With a […]
FMM 3 22 19 Intentionality
“When you eat mindfully, by paying attention to what you eat, you get more pleasure with fewer calories.” ~ Dean Ornish. My father was a man who had great faith, but who also believed in doing his part to ensure good outcomes. He would say he always knew when God wanted him to do something […]
FMM 3 15 19 Real Talk
“I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don’t know where it’s going to lead me, but I follow it.” ~ Grace Jones. I don’t remember when (if ever) I got the ‘birds and the bees’ talk, but I heard about girls and periods early. They didn’t want to tell […]
FMM 3 1 19 Existential Filter
“Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore. One of the features of growing up in a large family is the noise. Shouting, laughing, arguing, crying, the only time the poor parents have peace is when all the children are asleep. Which reminds me of the Jamaican t-shirt […]
FMM 2 22 19 Consonance, assonance, resonance
“I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe. I am a pragmatist by nature. It was when my children were finishing high school and thinking of college and their future careers that I realized that when it comes to job security, I favor the […]