Tag Archives: diversity
FMM 6 6 2025 Todo el mundo Bailando!
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” ~ Albert Einstein. I heard yesterday that there is a type of English known as ‘Miami English’. Unlike Spanglish, which freely mixes the two languages, switching mid-sentence from one to the other and then back, Miami English is predominantly […]
FMM 5 30 2025 Nothing at All
“The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love – whether we call it friendship or family or romance – is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light.” ~ James Baldwin. I was not a particularly self-confident child, although as to whether that was innate or learned behavior is a question […]
FMM 5 2 2025 ‘A it mek!’
“Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?” ~ Desmond Tutu. One of the great defining features of my life was the fact that my family moved from a city in the UK to the heart of rural Jamaica when I was […]
FMM 8 23 2024 Keep the Faith
“As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.” ~ Tracee Ellis Ross. I have a confession to make. On Friday mornings I get up with my phone, with notes to myself as my guide for what I will […]
FMM 2 7 2020 An Age-old dilemma
“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.” ~ Henry David Thoreau. My father Pearce was a picky eater. I don’t know when it began, but definitely by the time I was a teen I was aware of it. In restaurants he would stick to what he knew. The most adventurous he would […]
FMM 1 4 19 A Repurposed Life
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson. The old is new again. On my recent trip to the UK we rode from Bolton, a town nestled in the foothills of the Lancashire Pennines, in to the city center of Manchester. Rather than driving […]
FMM 8 18 17 Isms and Schisms
“All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.”~Helen Keller. I grew up in a tradition of caring for others. But more than that, we were taught to respect our common humanity, and recognize that all human beings deserve respect. My parents were practicing Christians, and they lived their beliefs. At one […]
FMM 4 14 17 It Coulda Worse!
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”~Denis Waitley. They say travel broadens the mind. There is something about experiencing a place, a people and a culture far different to the one you are familiar with that helps to open […]
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 11 4 16 Evoking our Better Angels
“Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.”~Mikhail Gorbachev. One of the problems with growing up as a preacher’s child (parson pickney, in Jamaican terms) is the unrealistic expectation that somehow you will behave better than the average child. My mother discovered that I had ‘unfriended’ […]
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