Tag Archives: Reparations

FMM 5 15 2026 Hold a Medz

May 15, 2026 · by · in Global health and disparities, Inspirational, transcendence · Leave a comment

“America’s present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.” ~ Warren G. Harding. My father, a Christian and a Pacifist, went before a tribunal during World War II to defend his belief that he had no right to kill his fellow man.  His appeal was approved, but unlike […]

FMM 8 1 2025 Too much Noise out there!

August 1, 2025 · by · in Global health and disparities, Inspirational, transcendence · Leave a comment

“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!” ~ Marcus Garvey. Last week we enjoyed a cultural event, attending a play written and directed by a local African American poet and playwright, Darius Daughtry.  This is the second of his plays that we have attended, and one of the most noteworthy […]

FMM 11 15 2024 The ‘W’ Word

November 15, 2024 · by · in Global health and disparities, Inspirational, transcendence · 2 Comments

“The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson. For those who don’t know me, I had a uniquely educational childhood. The youngest daughter of a minister who moved his white family from the UK to the heart of rural […]

FMM 9 29 17 Zip-lining Away!

September 29, 2017 · by · in Food and health, Global health and disparities, Inspirational, transcendence · Leave a comment

“The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.”~ Ralph Waldo Emerson. There are many beautiful places in Jamaica. The name itself is descriptive: Land of wood and water (Xaymaca was the Arawak name for the island). It is said that when Christopher Columbus […]