“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” ~ Lao Tzu. When I first returned to Jamaica after an absence of some fourteen years, I had already begun writing, filling unruled journals (I did not appreciate the lined versions, which seemed too restricted, too dictatorial) with thoughts and impressions. […]
FMM 12 22 2023 My First Love “I have forgotten much, but still remember The poinsettia’s red, blood-red in warm December” ~ Claude McKay. My parents came of age in a country at war. Britain was mobilized against the threat of a fascist, one whose dream was to take over the world. My mother was only […]
“Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.” ~ M. Scott Peck. As will be apparent as this morning’s musing unfolds, I am currently in a different time zone. So although it will be late for those in the Eastern Standard time zone (five hours behind the Universal Coordinated Time rather than the old Greenwich Mean Time) […]
“Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?” ~ Tecumseh. The celebration of Thanksgiving always leaves me conflicted. Who can possibly object to the concept of being thankful, of declaring appreciation for all […]
“One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.” ~ James Russell Lowell. I have been thinking about flooding this week. Not surprising really, as once more my neighborhood and many more in South Florida were inundated with torrential, persistent, rainfall. The type of rain that makes you want to stay in bed, […]
“The earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth.” ~ Chief Seattle. I have no idea when I met my first frog. I do remember learning about the amazing life cycle, the eggs looking like a blob with the weird name: frog spawn. The transformation into little wriggling things with tails and […]
“Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.” ~ George Washington Carver. When you start a family in a country not of your birth, with traditions similar in some ways, but quite different in others, you stumble around for […]
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