Christmas Memories - Wordless Wednesday Linky

Jud (left) & Jan (right)

Jud (left) & Jan (right)

Brother Sutcliffe who died last December

Sutcliffe

  
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Tribute Collage - Wordless Wednesday Linky

A tribute collage  to my twin sister on yet another anniversary of her death

          

Olympic Memories

Flag of Jamaica on Copyright Free Images

   
     I can hardly believe how quickly the London Olympic games have come around. I am here reminiscing about the last Olympics in 2008 when Jamaica did so well winning 6 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze medals.  My family including my twin sister Janine and brother Sutcliffe were glued to the television for many of the major events. Our favourite has always been athletics although we have shown interest in a wide variety of sports.

    The death of my twin almost killed my interest in sports and it was quite a struggle to regain it.  Nevertheless I have always been determined to do everything to cope. As I write this post and consider how things have changed in my life over the last 4 years I ask myself this question “What would Janine and Sutcliffe want for me?” Without any doubt I know that they would both want me to enjoy these games. That is what I aim to do as I recall this powerful saying "Have faith in God and no matter what happens in life you will find strength." – Catherine Pulsifer

    This year Jamaica celebrates its 50^th anniversary of Independence and we look forward to our athletes doing their best and the Jamaican flag flying high.

This was a clock!

   Would you believe that this was once a clock?! My family received it over 30 years ago. After a number of years it stopped working so Janine and I placed a postcard of a Kookaburra where the clock’s face used to be. First we pasted the postcard on a piece of cartridge paper. I am sure this was more than 15 years ago!  Janine received the postcard from one of her pen-pals.

Musical Memories

     Here I am reminiscing on how much my twin sister Janine and I loved a wide variety of music. This specially comes to mind with the passing of 3 of our favourite singers in recent times - Whitney Houston, Donna Summer and Robin Gibbs of the Bee Gees. We liked so many of the songs from these singers. This month also brings back memories of Jamaica's late reggae super star Bob Marley who passed away some 31 years ago on May 11, 1981.

    I continue to love music and listen to a lot of it on the radio and watch my favourite music shows on weekends.  As Bob Marley once said " One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
    

Picture Found At Last!

     Over 3 years ago when we were preparing a special album after Janine's death we wondered how we did not come across any pictures of Janine and me in our Marymount High School uniforms.  Lo and behold a few days ago we found this one in an envelope. It was taken a long time ago and of course not by a digital camera but I am still glad to have it!:)

Jan ( left) & Jud (right)