“I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.” ~ Khalil Gibran. My Auntie Elsie remained unmarried until she died. She was the eldest of six children, and we don’t know if it was because she stayed home to take […]
“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 […]
”It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful and gives birth to the imagination.”~Henry James Thoreau Jamaicans have a way with words. One of their favorite adjectives is ‘nuff’. And though it sounds as if it derives from the word ‘enough’, it is used to denote more than […]
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