Category Inspirational
FMM 5 4 18 Intentional Appreciation
“Love is not just tolerance. It’s not just distant appreciation. It’s a warm sense of, ‘I am enjoying the fact that you are you.’” ~ N. T. Wright. Have you ever been asked, or asked yourself, ‘What is your purpose? Why are you here?’ I guess most of us, at some point, try to get […]
FMM 4 27 18 Adjudication Withheld
“Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.”~ Jean de La Fontaine. Sometimes it is hard to imagine how far we have traveled in the past 60 years. Even less than that. Nowadays you can tell the age of a movie from the presence (or absence) of cell phones, and […]
FMM 4 20 18 Some Days Coffee
“I know it might sound weird, but empathy is one of the greatest creators of energy. It’s counterintuitive because it’s selfless.”~ Angela Ahrendts. My father came from an athletic family. He was the youngest of three boys, all of whom had trophies and awards for their accomplishments. In his 40’s and 50’s he would shine […]
FMM 4 6 18 Your Discomfort Zone
“Some women fear the fire, Some women simply become it..” r.h.sin. It is not always easy to remember who you were before parents, society, the church, school, changed you. We who grew up before the ability to capture every moment of every day; before we could broadcast every first smile and each cute pose; before […]
FMM 3 23 18 Mining your Life
“The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.”~ Mark Twain. I grew up in a family that made a joke of everything. My father had a wicked sense of humor, he would say the most outrageous things with a straight face, and it was only the hint of a dimple, or […]
FMM 3 16 18 Blinded by the Light
“If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.”~ Gail Sheehy. I remember the simple joy of owning a flashlight. Being English by birth, I first knew it as a ‘torch’, but once we moved to Jamaica we soon adapted to the more American name. It was small […]
FMM 3 9 18 Free to be Me
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” ~Soren Kierkegaard. I was once told that researchers can be either bees or butterflies. Either they are attracted to many different topics, and flit from one tempting flower to another, sampling tasty nectar here and there; or they […]
FMM 3 2 18 Join the Dots
“The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food.”~ Dean Ornish. It was my good fortune as a child growing up in Jamaica, to have aunts who would send packages at Christmas. Well they would be intended for Christmas, but as to when they arrived, that […]
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