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FMM 5 27 2022 Precious Sense
“All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche. My parents struggled financially, most of their married lives. They probably had more disposable income after they retired, than during their working lives. Of course, being a minister of the church was not a well reimbursed career, but […]
FMM 2 25 2022 Kindling
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” ~ George Eliot. I was born in a cold and rainy city, in a cold December month. At that time in England, the most common heating source in the houses was a coal fire-place. Coal was dirty, full of dust, brought deep out […]
FMM 1 21 2022 On the Tiptoe of Expectation
“People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.” ~ James Baldwin. My father was a minister (parson, preacher) by education and vocation, but became a teacher when we moved to Jamaica. He had two jobs, his charge of three churches, and to be chaplain and parttime Bible Knowledge teacher at the high […]
FMM 9 3 2021 Means and Extremes
“Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you’ve got all the answers, then don’t call what you do ‘faith.’ “~ Brene Brown. You never know what will trigger a memory. I was sat in traffic the other day, and saw a small poster advertising a Bible bookstore. When I was a teenager, my Saturday […]
FMM 4 9 2021 Tracing the Trajectory
“Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.” ~ Naomi Wolf. One of the challenges for the teacher of any subject, is trying to show how the topic is relevant, necessary, and worth learning. Most of us went through high school wondering ‘when am I ever going […]
FMM 3 13 20 Virus Ignoramus
“Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.” ~ Thomas Fuller. I have one very clear memory of nursing during the early days of the AIDS epidemic. A young man had developed a collapsed lung, which required the insertion of a tube into his chest wall to suck the air out of the pleural space […]
FMM 2 21 2020 Who’s job is it anyway?
“In a gentle way you can shake the world.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi. My sister went to nursing school about eight years before I did, in the days when nurses wore big dresses with huge wrap-around starched aprons. By the time I enrolled in the traditional, hospital based program they had modernized the uniform to a […]
FMM 11 29 19 Something to Smile for
“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.” ~ Aesop. We are at the time of year when days seem to crash into each other in their hurry to see the end of 2019. In the USA, once we hit Thanksgiving, we may as well give up and start writing 2020 already, it is as if […]
FMM 5 10 19 Mirror Mirror
FMM 5 10 19 Mirror Mirror “Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on.” ~ Maxwell Maltz. One of the joys of genetics is that you never know what features a baby will have. Will he/she be a ‘mini-me’ of one parent, or a blend of both? I don’t know what age […]
FMM 1 11 19 ‘I have the time’
“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.” ~ Khalil Gibran. The joy of being a story-teller is that first you must collect the stories. Which means at the very least having willing ears and an open mind. Many of us don’t have the patience to hear a […]
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