Category transcendence
FMM 10 6 2023 Where I lay my hat
“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” ~ Maya Angelou. Traditions are funny things. One of the reasons that special seasons have special meaning is because we do the same thing each year. In England, going to Pantomime around […]
FMM 9 22 2023 Enjoy Yourself!
“To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.” ~ Alan Cohen. As I wrestled with sleep, a strange memory came to mind. My mother, like many of her generation, began wearing false […]
FMM 9 15 2023 For the Nurses
“I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, – light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.” ~ John Constable. I know without a doubt that my life would have been very different had I not been transplanted at an early age […]
FMM 9 8 2023 ‘Don’t be so puerile!’
“Life may have plans that will completely overthrow your pettiness.” ~ Jeetendra. I learned to read when I was very young but of course I would stumble against unusual words. For some reason I can remember learning to say the alphabet in phonetic style rather than naming the letters, so that one day I was […]
FMM 9 1 2023 Rock Steady, Baby!
“Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.” ~ Hans Selye. I don’t know when I became a worrier. It would be interesting to know if it was in my nature, or if it was nurtured. I often laughed at a story I told of my mother, who, one night […]
FMM 8 25 2023 That which Impels
“The force that drives the water through the rocksDrives my red blood…” ~ Dylan Thomas. Some Friday mornings my messages have been written in my head in advance, sentences constructed, thoughts pouring out of me onto the page. Other weeks I struggle, reaching for stories and memories to weave together into a cohesive form. Throughout […]
FMM 8 18 2023 Change the Narrative
“Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.” ~Thomas Gray. My father was a man that many confided in. Whether it was because of his profession (a minister and teacher) or personality, he had a ready ear, and gentle words of advice. Of course, as his kids, we may have heard words that were […]
FMM 8 11 2023 The Price of Greatness
“We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.” ~ Stewart Udall. The year after Jamaica attained Independence from the colonial power of Britain, my father bravely (with his entire family and all our worldly goods) took us across the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean island of Jamaica. I was the youngest, so I had very […]
FMM 7 28 2023 Whither the Weather?
“I have forgotten much, but still remember Poinsettia’s red, blood-red, in warm December.” ~ Claude McKay. When I left England at age almost eight, it was a rainy, damp place. Skies and buildings were drab and grey. I am sure there was sunshine, occasionally, but it was in sharp contrast to the tropical island we […]
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