Love of self
…And are you brave enough to choose yourself when the time comes?
Because loving yourself is not selfish.
It’s necessary…
Joy
…At Christmas time, joy feels amplified. It fills our homes, our churches, our streets, and our hearts. We decorate, we gather, we give, and we remember. We remember why this season exists in the first place, the birth of Christ, a symbol of love given freely, of hope entering the world through humility, of joy arriving not with noise, but with purpose…
Gap
…When someone like that leaves your life, it leaves a huge void.
There is no gentle way to describe it. No poetic phrase that fully captures the absence. It is a gap; wide, unexpected, and painfully quiet. A space where laughter once lived…
Trauma
…Hurricane Melissa may have tested our resilience, but she also reminded us of something powerful: even when everything familiar is stripped away, our spirit remains. And from that spirit, we will rise, steadier, wiser, and perhaps even more compassionate than before. For me, Jamaica is not just a place, it’s a people, a resilient people, a people that never allows themselves to stay down when kicked in the face. Jamaica, land we love, Jamaica to the world…
Preparedness
…We often live in a rush, reacting instead of preparing. We scramble when crises come, when deadlines arrive, when opportunities show up at our door…
Continuation
…Life itself feels very much the same. We often think in terms of starts and finishes, but really, it is a circle. Birth feels like a beginning, and death feels like an ending, yet both are part of a much larger continuation…