Tag Archives: history
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 11 1 2024 Think for Yourself!
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” ~ Audre Lorde. Like many children, I grew up seeing the world through the lens of my parents’ eyes – in particular my father. He had a way of making observations that helped you to see […]
FMM 10 11 2024 Oh Canada!
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”~ Martin Luther King, Jr. I have links with Canada on both sides of my family tree. Many years ago, my great-grandparents (on my father’s side) decided to emigrate to Canada. This was their second migration. Earlier, shortly after they got […]
FMM 9 20 2024 Sticks and Stones
“My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.” ~ Barack Obama. I have spent more than 85% of my life living in a land that was not the land of my birth. Thus, as I recently posted on social media, I identify as Immigrant. My […]
FMM 5 24 2024 A Ton of Bricks
“The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.” ~ Mark Twain. They say confession is good for the soul. I was an Elvis fan from early. You could say I had a celebrity crush on him, and even had a postcard sized head shot in black and white pinned on my […]
FMM 5 6 2022 No wrong path
‘Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.’ ~ Thich Nhat Hanh. The first time I went to Key West, it still had the sleepy quality of a fishing village. I was immediately in love. Four years before I had been living in Jamaica, and Key West […]
FMM 1 21 2022 On the Tiptoe of Expectation
“People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.” ~ James Baldwin. My father was a minister (parson, preacher) by education and vocation, but became a teacher when we moved to Jamaica. He had two jobs, his charge of three churches, and to be chaplain and parttime Bible Knowledge teacher at the high […]
FMM 11 19 2021 Lessons Learned
“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.” ~ Khalil Gibran. I was introduced to the poet Khalil Gibran in high school. I don’t know who was the first person to find and share ‘The Prophet’ but his prose […]
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 […]
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