Tag Archives: philosophy

FMM 12 13 2024 Expanded Consciousness

“He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.”~ Thomas Carlyle. It is a funny thing about vacations.  I well remember what we called our ‘summer holidays’ when I was young.  We were out of school from July to September, and the weeks stretched out ahead of us as if they […]

FMM 8 7 2020 Ah the Humanity

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.” ~ Dalai Lama. If you were to ask me whether I was an arts or sciences kind of student I would immediately select the sciences.  Most of the subjects I sat in my Cambridge ‘O’ (for ordinary) Level exams, and all of those I […]

FMM 10 16 15 Acceptance

“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”~Aristotle.  I moved from England to Jamaica as a child, at an age when I had no preconceived notions, no expectations.  It did not occur to me that I was supposed to see differences; in skin color, in […]