FMM 1 3 2025 Walk Good “The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.” ~ Cesare Pavese. I have often said (or thought, or written) that what helps make the Holiday season special, that magic time at the end of one year and the beginning of the next, is the rituals. Doing the […]
“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!” ~ Marcus Mosiah Garvey. Early in my marriage a pattern was set, one which assigned me to the role of mediator, the one who kept her tongue to keep the peace. It was almost a role of subservience, which is one I disapprove […]
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose own way.” ~ Viktor E. Frankl. Around 40 years ago, my first child graduated from kindergarten. I remember being very emotional, the sight of her so serious, […]
“He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.”~ Thomas Carlyle. It is a funny thing about vacations. I well remember what we called our ‘summer holidays’ when I was young. We were out of school from July to September, and the weeks stretched out ahead of us as if they […]
“Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that.” ~ Jon Kabat-Zinn. As I approach the end of my first year of retirement, I have to give thanks for a full and fulfilling twelve months. I […]
“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche. I have a complicated relationship with the Thanksgiving Holiday. Like most people born outside of the USA, it was not a holiday which permeated my consciousness until I arrived here in the late 70s. Since I moved to be with my […]
“They don’t want to see us uniteAll they want us to do is keep on fussing and fighting.” ~ Robert Nesta Marley. More than 25 years ago, a very close friend of my husband was murdered. In cold blood, in his driveway one morning. He (the friend) had been involved with some unsavory characters and […]
“The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson. For those who don’t know me, I had a uniquely educational childhood. The youngest daughter of a minister who moved his white family from the UK to the heart of rural […]
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