Tag Archives: Simplicity

FMM 3 22 2024 Simply the Best!

“Love is a friendship set to music” ~ Joseph Campbell. The other day I reread something my father had written.  It was his tribute to and summary of his father’s life, on the 100th anniversary of his birth.  This was a man I did not know, as he had died before I was born.  I […]

FMM 12 12 2023 My First Love

FMM 12 22 2023 My First Love “I have forgotten much, but still remember The poinsettia’s red, blood-red in warm December” ~ Claude McKay. My parents came of age in a country at war.  Britain was mobilized against the threat of a fascist, one whose dream was to take over the world.  My mother was only […]

FMM 4 19 19 Natural Wonder

“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.” ~ Walt Whitman. I am by nature suspicious of flowery speech.  I have a memory of my father explaining something to me as ‘purple prose’, passages of literature that are too fulsome, too many superlatives and flashy […]