Tag Archives: Toots

FMM 3 8 2024 Big Tree, Small Axe

“A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.” ~ Marcus Garvey. When I started high school in Jamaica, one of the highlights of this new experience was the ‘social’ also known as a ‘boogie’.  I suppose at the time the twin influences of the […]

FMM 7 7 2023 In Harmonium

“The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson. My parents were both musicians.  Both played piano and organ (in the church).  My mother could read music, and taught all of us kids to do so also.  Whether we learnt […]