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FMM 12 19 2025 Don’t Overthink it!
“Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.” ~ Wole Soyinka. Growing up in the country in Jamaica, social events revolved around church and school. Going to market and doing the weekly supermarket run also provided weekly entertainment, an opportunity to stop and […]
FMM 1 17 2025 Past as Prologue
‘What no cost life, no cost nut’n.’ Jamaican saying. Yesterday I lost myself in stories of the past. I was entrusted with some documents belonging to (and written by) a man who is now almost 90 years old. There were references to people and places of my past, of the church my father was minister […]
FMM 12 8 2023 Altitude Adjustment
‘A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.’ ~ Lao Tzu. I read something in a group chat the other day that resonated. A friend wrote that often it is at a funeral that you learn something about the person who died. Even if it is someone you thought you […]
FMM 11 11 2022 The Untethered Spirit
“Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.” ~ Thomas Merton. My father went to Jamaica in 1963, having accepted two jobs. One was to be minister of a charge with only three churches (the usual charge had five or more churches), and the other to be chaplain and part time teacher at the […]
FMM 4 19 19 Natural Wonder
“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.” ~ Walt Whitman. I am by nature suspicious of flowery speech. I have a memory of my father explaining something to me as ‘purple prose’, passages of literature that are too fulsome, too many superlatives and flashy […]
FMM 12 6 13 Let your light so shine.
“ As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.” ~ Nelson Mandela. Along with the sadness at the loss of a great man (although even the word great seems too small for this particular leader) comes the opportunity to reflect on his examples. Nelson Mandela inspired, led, […]
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