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FMM 2 14 2025 Hope Springs Maternal
“Hope is the thing with feathersThat perches in the soul,And sings the tune without the words,And never stops at all,” ~ Emily Dickinson. I always knew I would have children. Lots of them. I remember being quite young when I held a baby, she was about seven months old, and she promptly tried to bite […]
FMM 8 18 2023 Change the Narrative
“Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.” ~Thomas Gray. My father was a man that many confided in. Whether it was because of his profession (a minister and teacher) or personality, he had a ready ear, and gentle words of advice. Of course, as his kids, we may have heard words that were […]
FMM 7 21 2023 True Colors
“There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi. Early in my marriage, my home was a place where there would be consequential arguments about significant topics like historical and social injustice. Friends who came over would be engaged in […]
FMM 6 23 2023 Triggered!
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” ~ Viktor E. Frankl. I was not a child who could shrug off being teased. As the youngest I was particularly sensitive to being a step behind […]
FMM 10 1 2021Cloud Mandalas
“Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.” ~ Pythagoras. I believe I have always had a fascination with nature. As I got ready to leave Jamaica after high school to go to nursing school in the UK, I made sure to take plenty of photographs. […]
FMM 12 11 2020 Delicious December
“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 2 28 20 Perfect Balance
“To him who is in fear everything rustles.” ~ Sophocles. I have always been fascinated by my dreams. I still have a clear memory of a dream I had as a child. I was in a forest where all of the trees were ghostly white. There may have been animals like statues, also white. The […]
FMM 11 29 19 Something to Smile for
“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.” ~ Aesop. We are at the time of year when days seem to crash into each other in their hurry to see the end of 2019. In the USA, once we hit Thanksgiving, we may as well give up and start writing 2020 already, it is as if […]
FMM 7 6 18 I’m Only Human
“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”~ George Orwell. The first time I visited Jamaica after an absence of over 14 years, I fell in love all over again. It was not difficult. For a start I was staying up in the verdant hills of St. Andrew, looking up at the […]
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