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FMM 5 14 2021 A Ubiquity of Photographs
“Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.” ~ Rosa Parks. When you are the youngest of five children, you tend to feel left out of family reminiscing. One of my plaintive cries on such occasions was: ‘Was I born?’ Of course, you don’t appear in many of the […]
FMM 4 2 2021 April Airs Abroad
“What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.” ~ George Eliot. My four children were born in Miami. For the first part of their lives, Florida was all they knew. […]
FMM 5 5 17 Warts and All
“Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.”~Nathaniel Branden. For those of us born in the baby boomer generation, most of our childhood photos were taken in school. Cameras were not common place. Photos took days to be developed. What you saw was what you got. And although we may […]
FMM 23 16 Meditation on the Moon
“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.”~George Carlin. I have no definitive memory of when I saw my first full moon. Spending my first seven years mostly in a city was one factor. Even when we went on vacation to the less light polluted seaside, I have no recollection of […]
FMM 5 20 16 Create Space
“But let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.”~ Khalil Gibran. When my mother died last year, we found ourselves going through stacks of correspondence; piles of papers; items that had not only been transported from Jamaica to England when my parents retired, but may […]
FMM 1 22 16 Love Streaming
“Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”~Hebrews, 11:1. Story telling comes naturally to the human race. It is how we make sense of the world, of our lives, of relationships. Even little children can spin a yarn as they tell you about a bee in the closet, or […]
FMM 12 18 15 In Praise of Life
“Though lovers be lost love shall not, And death shall have no dominion.”~Dylan Thomas. Death is a funny thing. It sharpens the senses like a shower of rain clears the air. Memories once distant come close. As a drop of dew on a leaf brings the colors and veins into acute focus, it can […]
FMM 10 9 15 Spirit Trails
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” ~Albert Einstein. Last Sunday I visited the Everglades. It has been a while since I went, but it took me back to a time I went there with my parents, along with two of my children. I remember sending my daughter into the Visitor’s […]
12 27 13 We walk this path together
“In every conceivable way, family is link to the past, and bridge to the future” – Alex Haley. First – a disclaimer: I am struggling to write this morning on my new device (I suppose you could call it an early Christmas gift), an i-pad. And though it is wonderful for addictions such as facebook, […]
Friday Morning Messages 