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FMM 5 23 2025 Secrets and Shame

“What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.” ~ Friedrick Nietzsche. One of the joys of retirement is that road trips can be the way to get to far distant events.  This also means that routines are disrupted, and Friday morning messages are late! Which is the case […]

FMM 10 25 2024 Sacred Footprints

“Ya running and ya running,But ya can’t run away from yourself.” ~ Robert Nesta Marley. It is hard to imagine now, but there was a time when photographs were scarce commodities.  Cameras were not ubiquitous.  Film was expensive, and you wouldn’t know until it was developed how the photos would turn out.  My mother once […]

FMM 10 17 14 Conspiracy of Silence

“In the end we will remember, not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” ~Martin Luther King Jr.  One of the tragedies of abuse is the secrets and lies.  Children who are abused are sworn to secrecy by their abusers.  They come to believe that harm will come, to them or […]