Tag Archives: universality
FMM 3 17 17 I’m an Alien
“Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.”~Leo Buscaglia. Picture me at ten years old, the only little white girl in a rural Jamaican school, convinced I could fit in if only I could speak like a Jamaican. One of the realities of our lives is that we can only see […]
FMM 10 16 15 Acceptance
“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”~Aristotle. I moved from England to Jamaica as a child, at an age when I had no preconceived notions, no expectations. It did not occur to me that I was supposed to see differences; in skin color, in […]