Category transcendence
FMM 11 28 2025 Beatification
“The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your […]
FMM 11 21 2025 With Hearts and Hands and Voices
“Ring the alarm, another sound is dying, woh-oh, hey!” ~ Clive ‘Tenor Saw’ Bright. Music has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. My father, being proudly Welsh and therefore a singer, led the church choir wherever he was the minister. But it wasn’t only hymns we sang. In […]
FMM 11 14 2025 Hot Chocolate and Heated Seats
“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice, he is the worst.” ~ Aristotle. When I was in my mid thirties (half a lifetime ago!), I was officially promoted from direct care nurse to administration. In nursing, the most demanding, least rewarding position is that of ‘Nurse Manager’. […]
FMM 11 7 2025 The Greatest of These
“We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike” ~ Maya Angelou. The recent visit of Hurricane Melissa to Jamaica has, in addition to the human suffering and devastating loss of property and agriculture, resulted in the destruction of the historic town of Black River, a town whose existence was noted on a map […]
FMM 10 31 2025 Invasive Decluttering
“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?” ~ Buddha. My parents must have moved house at least four times in the first 20 years of their marriage. Since my father was a minister, each new church came with […]
FMM 10 24 25 Galluping Away!
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” ~ Unknown. My mother had a few odd sayings she would throw at me when, as a teenager, I would be obsessing about some perceived flaw (usually on my face). ‘A blind man and (or on?) a galloping horse…’ which was […]
FMM 10 17 2025 So Let us Live!
“We been fighting for all the wrong stuff, We better fight to stay in love.” ~ Tanya Stephens. One of my favorite stories about my childhood arrival in rural Jamaica, which I have probably told many times, is about our encounter with a snoring animal. It was bad enough trying to adjust to the sounds […]
FMM 10 10 2025 Falling for You
“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” ~ Charles Spurgeon. Back in the day, many years ago, before we had personal computers or smart phones, before the Internet, we used to communicate by sending handwritten (or typed, if you were fancy or in business) letters. These […]
FMM 9 26 2025 Laughter, the best Medicine
“To him who is in fear, everything rustles.” ~ Sophocles. I remember finding a book of jokes, when I was quite young. I was a good reader, and these jokes were fairly easy to decipher especially as the book was illustrated with drawings. One joke told of a man carefully driving a little car on […]
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