Tag Archives: meditation
FMM 8 15 2025 Thinking with the Heart
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” ~ Robert Frost. I can’t say that I have ever been very good at debating on the fly. Some people are quick, able to respond to taunts and jabs with a rapid response, cutting and accurate. Me, my best responses […]
FMM 6 7 2024 Jamaica Medz
“Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh. I have always been a morning person, early to rise (also, early to bed!). It has never been a challenge for me to be up with the roosters, or even (as they say in Jamaica) before ‘cock put on ‘im […]
FMM 7 14 2023 Gossamer Threads
“People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections.” ~ Khaled Hosseini. I have always believed in the mind-body connection, understanding that the whole body is connected, in ways we can only begin to imagine. I often recommend practices that help to still the ‘monkey mind’, one that jumps from thought to thought, […]
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 8 20 2021 In Tension
“Honor thy error as a hidden intention” ~ Brian Eno. It is almost twenty years since the day we saw the twin towers collapse. It was one of those events that most people can honestly say, I remember where I was and what I was doing that day. Of course, for some the memories are […]
FMM 2 26 21 Tugging at my Band-width
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” ~ George Bernard Shaw. I have some memories from early childhood that I am not sure if they are actual memories. I once heard that the only true memory is the first time you recall something. After that, you are […]
FMM 1 24 20 Shift to Self
“The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness.” ~ Jon Kabat-Zinn. I have a very clear memory from my childhood of an episode of pain. I had a severe ache in my leg, in the shin area, which earned me confinement to bed, and the tender ministrations […]
FMM 3 29 19 Mother and Child Reunion
“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.” ~ Barbara Kingsolver. I am the youngest in my family. I found that to be frustrating as a child, as I had no baby brothers or sisters to play with. My mother was unmoved by my requests. She often declared herself to ‘have no maternal […]
FMM 11 2 18 Calm Energy
“Good words cool more than cold water.” ~ John Ray. In high school my classmates and I were lucky enough to have the same ‘form teacher’ (I guess in the US he would be called our home-room teacher) for five years. I say lucky, because he was one of those rare teachers, a man who […]
FMM 10 5 18 Greatest Good
“The countenance of one man brighteneth another; Iron sharpeneth iron” ~ Joseph Hill, Culture. I have never doubted the power of the mind. My mother was a strong believer in mind over matter. It mostly had to do with you ignoring all of those things you wanted to use as excuses not to get a […]
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