Tag Archives: Rabindranath Tagore

FMM 9 5 2025 Lively up Yourself!

“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” ~  Rabindranath Tagore. When you grow up in the church, it goes without saying that you soon learn that doing unto others, caring for the least among us, is done without thinking.  […]

FMM 11 26 2021 Holding Space

“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore. One of the first concepts that puzzled me when I moved to Jamaica as a child, was the term ‘follow’.  At the end of the school day, once it was decided that I could […]

FMM 3 10 17 As a Tree

“Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”~Rabindranath Tagore. I remember as a child making a determined effort to get my untidy room under control.  I knew I was the one who needed to change my ways, and when I was finished I made a poster with a positive message, and displayed […]

3 3 17 Distracted by the Light

“To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.”~A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. My mother was the kind of housewife who hated the mundane repetition of regular cleaning and dusting.  She much preferred those jobs that required some degree of creativity.  She loved to bake, crafting endless variations on a theme (a friend […]