Tag Archives: Arts
FMM 7 4 2025 Ode to Joy
“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” ~ Emily Dickinson. After seven days of activities and events here in Jamaica that have produced so many moments of joy, I am not sure how I will report on them in just one post. But perhaps I can tempt your senses with […]
FMM 11 19 2021 Lessons Learned
“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.” ~ Khalil Gibran. I was introduced to the poet Khalil Gibran in high school. I don’t know who was the first person to find and share ‘The Prophet’ but his prose […]
FMM 10 22 2021 Rivers in the Sky
“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.” ~ Muriel Rukeyser. The art of science is to be able to make it comprehensible to common man. I remember learning ‘General Science’ in high school, and learning about the water cycle. To illustrate this concept, we had to draw a body of water, the sun […]
FMM 2 22 19 Consonance, assonance, resonance
“I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe. I am a pragmatist by nature. It was when my children were finishing high school and thinking of college and their future careers that I realized that when it comes to job security, I favor the […]
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