Tag Archives: Eryri

FMM 4 5 2024 Peaceful, Easy Feeling

“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” ~ John Muir. I have often written of my family’s tradition of going camping in the summer.  This was the cheapest way to get away from the city during the long summer holidays (or vacation, as they say in the US).  My parents […]

FMM 5 22 2020 Sheet Lightning

“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.” ~ Frederick Douglass. The first time I returned to visit Jamaica after a thirteen-year hiatus, I spent a lot of my time gazing, staring out at mountain vistas, rumpled […]