Tag Archives: mother nature
FMM 1 27 2023 Three days, three mothers
Let us now praise unfamous women, And our mothers that begat us. (Adapted from Ecclesiasticus 44:1). It may sound strange, but I find much to appreciate in a funeral. I have often learned more about the person who died at the celebration of their life, than I knew of them when alive. It so happens that last week I […]
FMM 10 23 2020 Hard Rain
FMM 10 23 2020 Hard Rain “Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.” ~ John Updike. For the past two days it rained solidly as I drove in to work (yes, we are partially working on campus, following guidelines, masks in place). It was […]
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 10 12 18 Who am I?
“Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.” ~ John Donne. When I left Jamaica in the mid 70’s, I hadn’t heard the word ‘Soca’ used to describe the music we associated with those small islands of the Caribbean. It was Calypso music back then, and we mostly heard it in a 5-minute block […]
FMM 5 4 18 Intentional Appreciation
“Love is not just tolerance. It’s not just distant appreciation. It’s a warm sense of, ‘I am enjoying the fact that you are you.’” ~ N. T. Wright. Have you ever been asked, or asked yourself, ‘What is your purpose? Why are you here?’ I guess most of us, at some point, try to get […]
FMM 4 29 16 Gained in Translation
“Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer.”~Radhanath Swami. Language is a wonderful thing. It provides words which represent complex thoughts, symbols that identify objects and people, and allows us to express emotions and needs. All over the globe, individual tribes of prehistoric people […]
FMM 3 4 16 Grit in the System
“To love a place is not enough. We must find ways to heal it.”~Robin Wall Kimmerer. Nothing is ever completely bad. There is always something to be learned. I find myself at times mindlessly scrolling through Facebook, enjoying random photos and thoughts, stopping to smile at a cartoon or an uplifting thought. Whenever I find […]
FMM 7 12 13 It’s all about me.
“You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.” ~George Clooney. If you spend any time on facebook, you may sometimes find yourself wondering why people decide to have a public and contentious debate on any given subject. Often by the time they give up, they have dragged any number of people in, and […]
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