Tag Archives: anticipation

FMM 12 1 2023 Moments

December 1, 2023 · by · in Inspirational, transcendence · Leave a comment

“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) […]

FMM 12 11 2020 Delicious December

December 11, 2020 · by · in Food and health, Inspirational · Leave a comment

“Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.” ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca. There was a very strict rule in our household growing up, regarding gifts (Christmas and Birthday). They were never to be opened before the day. I practiced the same thing as a parent, teaching my kids the […]

FMM 8 29 14 Satisfy your Soul

August 29, 2014 · by · in Inspirational · Leave a comment

”It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful and gives birth to the imagination.”~Henry James Thoreau   Jamaicans have a way with words.  One of their favorite adjectives is ‘nuff’.  And though it sounds as if it derives from the word ‘enough’, it is used to denote more than […]

FMM 9 27 13 The waiting is the hardest part.

September 27, 2013 · by · in Global health and disparities, Inspirational · 2 Comments

“Our patience will achieve more than our force.” ~Edmund Burke.  I freely admit to being a very impatient person.  If given a choice, I will take the stairs instead of the elevator because of impatience, not for the health benefits.  I realize I am not alone in this.  Pregnancy is one of those lessons for […]