Tag Archives: compassion
FMM 11 22 2024 No Time for Tears
“They don’t want to see us uniteAll they want us to do is keep on fussing and fighting.” ~ Robert Nesta Marley. More than 25 years ago, a very close friend of my husband was murdered. In cold blood, in his driveway one morning. He (the friend) had been involved with some unsavory characters and […]
FMM 8 2 2024 What’s Love got to do With it?
“Father, fatherWe don’t need to escalateYou see, war is not the answerFor only love can conquer hate.” ~ Marvin Gaye. Twenty-five years ago, before my father started to show evidence of cognitive decline, one of my nephews got married. Three generations of the family were represented, and my father, although he no longer officiated at […]
FMM 5 17 2024 Half the Story
“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” ~ Lao Tzu. Mother-daughter relationships are complicated. I have no idea why they have to be, but it is an altogether different vibe from mother-son connection. Having one daughter and three sons, I learned that early on. There was a […]
FMM 5 19 17 Throwing Corn
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”~Ernest Hemingway. Reginald and Henrietta joined our family soon after we arrived in Jamaica. As city folk transplanted to rural Jamaica, we accepted the gifts as pets, not as the dinner (Reggie the rooster) and breakfast producer (Henrietta the Hen) they […]
FMM 3 17 17 I’m an Alien
“Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.”~Leo Buscaglia. Picture me at ten years old, the only little white girl in a rural Jamaican school, convinced I could fit in if only I could speak like a Jamaican. One of the realities of our lives is that we can only see […]
FMM 1 1 16 One World One People
Guest FMM by Jabari I Powell “I hate math, but more accurately – I do not love division.” ~ #JonesGeneHumor HAPPY NEW YEAR!! Today is the beginning of a New Year, a symbol for new beginnings. Often on this day we resolve to make our own personal changes and hope to keep true to them […]
FMM 11 20 15 The Greatest is Love
“Love’s in need of love today” ~Stevie Wonder. Life is an act of faith. It is also fragile. Each morning when we wake up, we go out into the world fully expecting to return safe and sound, even though (if we watch the news) we know there are so many things that could go wrong. […]
FMM 8 7 15 Being and Knowing
Set a better example (Better set an example)~Alton Ellis. Teaching and learning are two completely different concepts. Ask any teacher! You may teach your heart out, but if learning has not taken place, you were ineffective. When I think of the image of a college professor standing in a large auditorium, expounding at great length […]
FMM 6 19 15 Embrace yourself!
“If you don’t love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able of developing compassion for others.”~Dalai Lama. This world can be a scary place, with examples of hate and violence evident in living color whenever we turn […]
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