Personal Response To Blossom: My Hero

TRIBUTE TO BLOSSOM MY SISTER IN CHRIST, MY HERO

If you ask Blossom whether anyone regards her as a hero, her response would be in the negative, but such a reply would be incorrect for although she doesn’t know it, and despite the fact that I’m older than her, she is my hero and she possesses qualities worthy of emulation. She knows the Bible, lives a life based on its precepts and is an awesome woman, laser focused on God. That is how I have felt about Blossom ever since I lost my mother, my first hero. Blossom is the epitome of all that is excellent in humanity and I love her. Forty two years ago we met at a mutual friend’s house where she looked beyond my serious countenance, took a chance and got to know me, and am I glad she did! What an opportunity, what a privilege, and what a life-time of joy I would have missed.

I gladly accepted the invitation because l like to engage with young people with the hope of influencing them positively. After that encounter we kept in touch until she became the part-time Spanish teacher in the Training Section at the Bank of Jamaica where I worked and that experience confirmed her capabilities in Human Resource Development.

The years passed with further interactions between us, resulting in an offer to her to act for me as Human Resource Development Officer when I relocated temporarily to England to pursue a Master’s degree course. Unknown to the Bank, there were personal circumstances militating against an immediate acceptance of the offer, and the Bank waited for almost a year for her answer. In retrospect, I am glad we waited because we had an excellent working relationship which lasted for about twenty years and a close personal friendship beyond