POSTCARDS
Wish you were here...
JACulture.com hearts all Jamaicans, those Jamaicans in Jamaica and those abroad. In case you didn’t know (though not quite sure how you could not), there are now more Jamaicans living outside of Jamaica than those on the Rock. In our Postcards series we feature Jamaicans in the diaspora, whose bodies may be far away but whose hearts are always with us.
...From Marguerite Orane in Toronto
Laughing to Freedom
Recently, Karen Hutchinson of JACulture.com conducted an interview with the charming and cultured Marguerite Orane - Author, University Lecturer and Management Consultant. In 2008 she published Free and Laughing: Spiritual Insights in Everyday Moments, a motivational book. Marguerite now resides in Toronto, Canada.
Marguerite Orane, spiritual author
JACulture: Marguerite, thanks for agreeing to the interview.
Marguerite Orane: Thanks for the honour of the invitation. Your website is lovely - but not just lovely, very informative and interesting.
JA: High praise indeed. Tell us, Marguerite, you are a motivational writer. What is it that led you down this interesting path?
MO: Well, it’s funny. I’ve journalled for many, many years and have always found it to be therapeutic. Plus I’d started a blog in 2006 as I felt the calling to share some of my insights with the world. And people were always saying to me “Marguerite, when are you going to write a book?” So then in 2007 my mother celebrated her 90th birthday. There I was trying to decide what to give her for this special milestone and it came to me one morning – do the book! Thankfully I realised that I already had much of the content from my blog. So the truth at the end of the day is I never set out to write a book – I was just doing a birthday gift for my mom.
JA: Can we assume she loved it?
MO: Oh, yes! For sure it was the only one like it she got.
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Marguerite Orane: Thanks for the honour of the invitation. Your website is lovely - but not just lovely, very informative and interesting.
JA: High praise indeed. Tell us, Marguerite, you are a motivational writer. What is it that led you down this interesting path?
MO: Well, it’s funny. I’ve journalled for many, many years and have always found it to be therapeutic. Plus I’d started a blog in 2006 as I felt the calling to share some of my insights with the world. And people were always saying to me “Marguerite, when are you going to write a book?” So then in 2007 my mother celebrated her 90th birthday. There I was trying to decide what to give her for this special milestone and it came to me one morning – do the book! Thankfully I realised that I already had much of the content from my blog. So the truth at the end of the day is I never set out to write a book – I was just doing a birthday gift for my mom.
JA: Can we assume she loved it?
MO: Oh, yes! For sure it was the only one like it she got.
Read more...
