Tag Archives: Jamaica
FMM 10 14 2022 Poets and Pragmatists
“Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.” ~ Sigmund Freud. I still own a book of poetry that was sent to me by one of my aunts when I was about 8 or 9. The title called to me, ‘The Littlest one, his book’ since I was the youngest, […]
FMM 10 7 2022 Joyful Together
“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.” ~ Karl Barth. You don’t hear the word ‘sulking’ much anymore. I am not sure what the current term is for holding on to anger in a silent, brooding way. I clearly remember a couple of episodes from my childhood where I milked a good ‘sulk’ for as […]
FMM 9 2 2022 Living History
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” ~ Viktor E. Frankl. I often wonder what happened to Evelyn. The first school I went to in Jamaica was a private ‘Prep’ school, run by a married […]
FMM 7 22 2022 Collective Conscience
“Conscience is a man’s compass.” ~ Vincent Van Gogh. I am not sure when my fascination with the history and culture of Native Americans began. When I was about 7 years old, my mother was not able to be present with me for some event, and I was rewarded with a special doll I had […]
6 17 2022 Let us now Praise
“When fear rushed in, I learned how to hear my heart racing but refused to allow my feelings to sway me. That resilience came from my family. It flowed through our bloodline.” ~ Coretta Scott King. I have been blessed to have had many strong women in my life who showed me a template of […]
FMM 6 10 2022 Blurred Lines
“We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.” ~ Maya Angelou. Growing up a white kid in the heart of Jamaica provided me with the most mind-expanding education you can be privileged to have. I was young enough when I moved there not to have many pre-conceptions, and since I was welcomed into […]
FMM 5 13 2022 Be more, Do more, Want less Revisited
“We can’t be useful to ourselves unless we’re useful to others.”~Dalai Lama. When I stepped into my bathroom the other morning, I had a memory of early mornings in the hills of Jamaica. A cool breeze would steal in through the open window, warning you of how cold the unheated water might be. Outside the […]
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 […]
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