Tag Archives: sunrise
FMM 7 11 2025 Body Language Included
“Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.” ~ Wole Soyinka. There is something in the light of a Jamaican pre-dawn. For those who leave a country and live away from it for many years (at this point, many decades), there are things […]
FMM 6 28 2024 Inflection Points
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” ~ Victor Hugo. If travel is educational, then I have been blessed with learning from early childhood, and hopefully I will never graduate! This year alone, the first in my retirement, I have visited four countries (outside of the US), and several states within the […]
FMM 10 1 2021Cloud Mandalas
“Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.” ~ Pythagoras. I believe I have always had a fascination with nature. As I got ready to leave Jamaica after high school to go to nursing school in the UK, I made sure to take plenty of photographs. […]
3 3 17 Distracted by the Light
“To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.”~A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. My mother was the kind of housewife who hated the mundane repetition of regular cleaning and dusting. She much preferred those jobs that required some degree of creativity. She loved to bake, crafting endless variations on a theme (a friend […]
FMM 4 3 15 What is your price?
“There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi I arrived in this country many years ago, a wide-eyed innocent, full of idealism and belief in the possibilities of life and humankind. Young people are wonderful, for the most part […]
FMM 11 20 12 Sun rise, Moon set
They say you can never go home again. That the past is gone, and if you hope to recapture it by visiting the places of your childhood you will be disappointed. I am not so sure about that. Yesterday I was blessed to be able to visit once more the town (or is it a […]