“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 […]
“Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.” ~ George Eliot. It seems obscene to say this, but fifty years ago I was a senior in high school (in Upper Sixth Form as we say in the old British system). I had lived most of my life in Jamaica, […]
“I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.” ~ Brene Brown. I don’t know when I first heard the word ‘codependent’. It certainly wasn’t a term when we were in nursing school. When I did read about it, I recognized myself in the description. Part of it was the need […]
“Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.” ~ Francis of Assisi. I have never been good in a fight. Physical fights were not allowed in our household growing up. When the church is a big part of your upbringing, ‘turn the other cheek’ and ‘a soft […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
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