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FMM 12 19 2025 Don’t Overthink it!

December 19, 2025 · by · in Global health and disparities, Inspirational, transcendence · 2 Comments

“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 8 1 2025 Too much Noise out there!

August 1, 2025 · by · in Global health and disparities, Inspirational, transcendence · Leave a comment

“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!” ~ Marcus Garvey. Last week we enjoyed a cultural event, attending a play written and directed by a local African American poet and playwright, Darius Daughtry.  This is the second of his plays that we have attended, and one of the most noteworthy […]

FMM 7 11 2025 Body Language Included

July 11, 2025 · by · in Global health and disparities, Inspirational, transcendence · Leave a comment

“Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.” ~ Wole Soyinka. There is something in the light of a Jamaican pre-dawn.  For those who leave a country and live away from it for many years (at this point, many decades), there are things […]

FMM 7 12 2024 Sustainable Storytelling

July 12, 2024 · by · in Global health and disparities, Inspirational, transcendence · 1 Comment

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.” ~ Ben Okri. My father was a storyteller.  He was also a Minister, and so had the opportunity and the venue, each Sunday morning, to intersperse his preaching with […]

FMM 5 10 2024 Shaping Culture

May 10, 2024 · by · in Global health and disparities, Inspirational, transcendence · Leave a comment

“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~ Ray Bradbury. When I was very young, I was volunteered to be a model in a ‘mannequin parade’.  This was a fashion show, and I don’t recall the details, but it may have been some kind of […]

FMM 4 19 2024 The Rebel in Me

April 19, 2024 · by · in Global health and disparities, Inspirational, transcendence · 1 Comment

“I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.” ~ Sojourner Truth. They say you can’t go home again.  I have always had a problem with that concept, mostly because I have been fortunate to call many places home in my life.  A minister’s family (at least back in the day, […]

FMM 2 10 2023 Embedded

February 10, 2023 · by · in Global health and disparities, Inspirational, transcendence · 2 Comments

‘The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than both of them.” ~ Marcus Garvey. It may be an advantage, or a disadvantage, but ever since I was seven, I have lived in countries and cultures that were not mine by birth.  Moving from the UK to Jamaica at that age […]

FMM 8 10 18 Shadow Boxing

August 10, 2018 · by · in Inspirational, transcendence · Leave a comment

“Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.” ~ Malorie Blackman. I was not a girlie girl when I was young.  I am constantly flummoxed by the way little girls nowadays are in such a rush to grow up.  I remember being quite annoyed at receiving […]