Tag Archives: family
FMM 12 20 2024 What is your Why?
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose own way.” ~ Viktor E. Frankl. Around 40 years ago, my first child graduated from kindergarten. I remember being very emotional, the sight of her so serious, […]
FMM 11 29 2024 In All Things, Give Thanks
“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche. I have a complicated relationship with the Thanksgiving Holiday. Like most people born outside of the USA, it was not a holiday which permeated my consciousness until I arrived here in the late 70s. Since I moved to be with my […]
FMM 4 19 2024 The Rebel in Me
“I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.” ~ Sojourner Truth. They say you can’t go home again. I have always had a problem with that concept, mostly because I have been fortunate to call many places home in my life. A minister’s family (at least back in the day, […]
FMM 3 22 2024 Simply the Best!
“Love is a friendship set to music” ~ Joseph Campbell. The other day I reread something my father had written. It was his tribute to and summary of his father’s life, on the 100th anniversary of his birth. This was a man I did not know, as he had died before I was born. I […]
FMM 12 1 2023 Moments
“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 7 9 2021 Triangulation
“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” ~ Desmond Tutu. I don’t know when I first realized that I was good at Math, or at least found the manipulation of numbers to be fun. I remember being given a book of math puzzles, I think they […]
FMM 3 25 2021 Mean to Me
“The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection.” ~ Robin S. Sharma. I was already halfway through a nostalgia-filled weekend when I heard the news. I had been following up on family connections having found a website that gives access to birth, marriage and death certificates, and was tracing long […]
FMM 1 29 21 Hey, Cousin!
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.” ~ Dalai Lama. As a young child, I was used to family get-togethers surrounded by cousins. On my father’s side I had nine cousins, and on my mother’s side I had 7, and when you added either of those to the five kids […]
FMM 12 28 18 Perhaps Inevitable
“There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.” ~ Charles Dickens. It has been a memorable week, and a week of memories. We spent one day sauntering (sauntering at brisk pace though, it was quite chilly) through the city center of Manchester, the city I was born in (but […]
myfmm.blog 