Tag Archives: Recognizing potential

FMM 10 2 2026 ‘No better than we ought to be’

“Isn’t this the purpose of education, to learn the nature of your own gifts and how to use them for good in the world?” ~ Robin Wall Kimmerer. In Jamaica in years gone by, at age eleven, children sat a ‘Common Entrance’ Examination.  It was a full day of Mathematics and English questions, and an […]

FMM 8 14 2026 Big up Yourself!

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant.” ~ Anonymous. My father always treasured the stories of the so-called ‘little people’ – the kind you never read about in the newspapers (back then, of course, before the explosion of social media).  As a minister he must have […]