‘In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. ‘ ~Alex Haley. For most of my life I have lived apart from my nuclear family. Despite having numerous cousins on both sides, I have never lived close enough to bump into one in my neighborhood. In fact, most of […]
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” ~ Viktor E. Frankl. I was not a child who could shrug off being teased. As the youngest I was particularly sensitive to being a step behind […]
“Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.” ~Norman Ralph Augustine. I learned more about muscle groups and their functions in the gym than I ever did in nursing school. To be honest, forty plus years ago, my hospital based nursing school had a system designed for you to learn on the wards, caring for real […]
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.’ ~ Michelangelo. Growing up in the country is so different from the city. One major difference is that in the country you ‘call to’ everyone as […]
“This is what I want in heaven… words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.” ~ Tina Turner. I became a student of language when I moved to Jamaica from the UK as a child. Although English is the official tongue there, the first language of most Jamaicans is patois (‘patwah’); a wonderful blend […]
“What is a soul? It’s like electricity – we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room.” ~ Ray Charles. The history of words and language in Jamaica is very complicated, having ingredients from many continents, and left to stew over many centuries. There is a saying in […]
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” ~ Carl Rogers. I am the youngest in my family. I am sure everyone has their opinion of how their sequencing in sibling order has affected their growth and development, and there are books dedicated to that. Aren’t […]
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” ~ Mother Teresa. When you grow up in a large family, you never seem to have any time to yourself. Certainly, you wouldn’t have your own bedroom, and there would always be a sibling or two, cousins, friends, to make any event a […]
“I have forgotten much, but still rememberThe poinsettia’s red, blood-red in warm December.” ~ Claude McKay. Memory is a funny thing. You never know what will trigger recall of a place, an event, people, even an emotion. It seems as if the memories are richer, fuller, when they occur spontaneously. If you set out to […]
“I would look up, and laugh, and love, and lift.” ~ Howard A. Walter. I want to say that my relationship with music began around the time I moved to Jamaica (which would be appropriate, though possibly not accurate). My early days in Jamaica would usually end in music, since a television was not a […]
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