How to live gratitude – just for a moment

Check out “Today’s Bright Spark” from Carmen C (scroll right and down).  It is beautiful. To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven. – Johannes A. Gaertner It is one thing to speak and enact gratitude.  But what does it mean […]

Happy anniversary Sesame Street!

This week Sesame Street celebrates its 40th anniversary! WOW!  How time flies!  I have so many wonderful memories of Sesame Street.  Watching the video I must admit a little nostalgic tearing up!  Big Bird, Elmo, Ernie and Bert, Cookie Monster and so many others have brought hours of fun learning to children all over the […]

A picture says a thousand words

This is a photograph taken by my Facebook friend, David Chen. The moment I saw this photo, I knew I had to share it on my blog.  The scene speaks to me of peace, friendship, comfort, contentment and beauty.  What more can one want in life?  If a cat and a dog can be in […]

What is home?

I returned home to Jamaica from Canada 2 weeks ago I had this strange feeling as the plane landed at Norman Manley airport in Kingston, as I drove through the streets of the city, as I went to my sister’s and then my brother’s homes.  I had never felt this way coming back to Jamaica.  […]

Litany

This is one of the most beautiful poems ever written – it is a prayer of gratitude for the most fundamental things in life! LITANY By George Campbell I hold the splendid daylight in my hands Inwardly grateful for a lovely day. Thank you life. Daylight like a fine fan spread from my hands Daylight […]

Usain Bolt – “That’s just me”

I wrote this blog one year ago, after Usain Bolt’s amazing performance at the Olympic Games in Beijing. Watching him shatter his own world record in the 100m at the World Championships in Berlin yesterday – relaxed, joking, sparring, having fun – I was reminded that yes, Bolt is a mind-boggling athlete, but it is […]

Laughing with 800 young ladies!

Laughing with the young ladies at Wolmer’s I had the amazing and wondrous experience yesterday of laughing with 800 teenagers! The energy of 800 free and laughing young women is intoxicating and energising. When we all threw our hands up in the air and joyously declared “Very good, very good, YAAAY”, it was the sound […]

Apache blessing

I love this Apache blessing, and share it with you today. It acknowledges our interconnectedness with our world, and the beauty and goodness of nature. It is my sincere wish for you. May the sun bring you new energy by day May the moon softly restore you by night May the rain wash away your […]

The First Dog

Bo Obama – the First Dog Itsy and Betti – two of MY First Dogs! The moment we (at least all dog lovers) have been waiting for has finally arrived – Bo Obama has made his appearance at the White House. I am so delighted for Sasha and Malia that they have finally got the […]

Parenting is gender neutral

As I headed out the door at 1.00 a.m. on Sunday morning to pick up my teenagers from a party, I noticed in me feelings of resentment and discomfort about having to do a task that I consider a man’s job, the dangers of a woman exiting her home in the depths of night and […]

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