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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 9 29 2023 Strange Emotion

September 29, 2023 · by · in Global health and disparities, Inspirational, transcendence · Leave a comment

“The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.: ~ Lois McMaster Bujold. I don’t know when my love of the outdoors, of nature, of mountains and trees, rivers and lakes began.  I was born in the grey city of Manchester, England, before the clean […]

FMM 6 3 2022 Sandhill Cranes and Manatee

June 3, 2022 · by · in Inspirational, transcendence · Leave a comment

“Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.” ~ Benjamin Spock. One of my enduring memories is of a dream I had as a child. We were driving through the night to get to our summer vacation home. That sounds a lot more glamorous than it was. As poor church mice, we had […]

FMM 01 04 13 Torn between two lovers

January 4, 2013 · by · in Global health and disparities, Inspirational · 5 Comments

When my father plucked his entire family from Manchester, England and transferred us to the center of the island of Jamaica, he had no idea he was creating a lifelong dilemma for me. I am frequently pulled between two shores: the beautiful exotic island I grew up in and the severe, mysterious mountains of North […]