“Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.”~Viktor E. Frankl. I am a Mancunian by birth. That means that I know that the correct pronunciation of the city’s name is Manchister, with the emphasis on the first syllable. I lived there until I was […]
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”~Ernest Hemingway. Reginald and Henrietta joined our family soon after we arrived in Jamaica. As city folk transplanted to rural Jamaica, we accepted the gifts as pets, not as the dinner (Reggie the rooster) and breakfast producer (Henrietta the Hen) they […]
“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.”~Napoleon Hill. My parents were married for 66 years when my father died. Theirs was a partnership that endured through many struggles and across many miles and left a legacy of enduring lessons along with a large family. But it was one which could easily have not […]
“Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.”~Nathaniel Branden. For those of us born in the baby boomer generation, most of our childhood photos were taken in school. Cameras were not common place. Photos took days to be developed. What you saw was what you got. And although we may […]
“Ring the alarm, another sound is dying (woh-oh, hey!)”~Tenor Saw. I don’t remember birds making a particular impact on me in childhood. Although I remember quite clearly a couple of songs from those days. One was about a robin in winter (poor thing), another about the exotic Australian kookaburra sitting in the old gum tree […]
“Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.” ~Mohsin Hamid. We all remember those special times of childhood. Whether it was the special feeling of waking up on a Christmas morning to the feel of a packed stocking at the foot of the bed, or the knowledge that your special day, your birthday, was […]
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”~Denis Waitley. They say travel broadens the mind. There is something about experiencing a place, a people and a culture far different to the one you are familiar with that helps to open […]
“We must let go of the life we have planned, in order to accept the life that is waiting for us.”~Joseph Campbell. I once attended a workshop for nurses on death and dying. It has long been acknowledged that unless you accept your own mortality, you cannot help those who are going through that transition. […]
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”~Buddha. They say that if you go to sleep with a champagne cork under your pillow, you will dream of your future husband. In my case it was true, but I may have cheated a bit. The night that I placed […]
“You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.”~Victoria Pratt. I was a prickly child. If anyone smiled at me and called me the ‘baby’ of the family, I corrected them “No, I’m the youngest.” I despised being picked up. I was a big […]
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