Tag Archives: Nature
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 4 19 2024 The Rebel in Me
“I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.” ~ Sojourner Truth. They say you can’t go home again. I have always had a problem with that concept, mostly because I have been fortunate to call many places home in my life. A minister’s family (at least back in the day, […]
FMM 4 5 2024 Peaceful, Easy Feeling
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” ~ John Muir. I have often written of my family’s tradition of going camping in the summer. This was the cheapest way to get away from the city during the long summer holidays (or vacation, as they say in the US). My parents […]
FMM 12 12 2023 My First Love
FMM 12 22 2023 My First Love “I have forgotten much, but still remember The poinsettia’s red, blood-red in warm December” ~ Claude McKay. My parents came of age in a country at war. Britain was mobilized against the threat of a fascist, one whose dream was to take over the world. My mother was only […]
FMM 1 6 2023 Higher Ground
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.” ~ Albert Einstein. If all things were equal, I would live within sight of mountains. Anyone who knows me, knows this about me. I was born in a city (Manchester, UK) which is not far from the Pennines, a chain of hills that separate […]
FMM 12 30 2022 Casting Long Shadows
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.” ~ John Muir. The week between Christmas and the New Year has always been special to me, mostly because my birthday falls in this week. Today is extra special because […]
FMM 10 1 2021Cloud Mandalas
“Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.” ~ Pythagoras. I believe I have always had a fascination with nature. As I got ready to leave Jamaica after high school to go to nursing school in the UK, I made sure to take plenty of photographs. […]
FMM 7 9 2021 Triangulation
“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” ~ Desmond Tutu. I don’t know when I first realized that I was good at Math, or at least found the manipulation of numbers to be fun. I remember being given a book of math puzzles, I think they […]