Quote for Today: Freddie Mercury
Creative Commons Licensed Image via Carl Lender on Fotopedia “Does it mean this, does it mean that, that’s all anybody wants to know. I’d say what any decent poet would say if anyone dared ask him to...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Seanan McGuire
The Argentine tango isn’t here to play nicely with the other children. The Argentine tango is here to seduce your women, spill things on your rug, and sneak out your bedroom window in the middle of the...
View ArticleRed Lights, Red Flags and Red Herrings: Chasing Synchronicity
CCLI by peterkeepitreal on Flickr There are moments that have the capacity to change our lives. How do we notice and take advantage of them? When two or more unrelated events are experienced in a way...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Jerry Spinelli
The Clock on the Morning Lenape Building Must Clocks be circles? Time is not a circle. Suppose the Mother of All Minutes started right here, on the sidewalk in front of the Morning Lenape Building, and...
View ArticlePlayful Depths: I’m a Cyborg, but That’s OK
Are humor and honesty effective in dealing with death and mental illness? Are we held back by propriety and clichés? Video via mnet on YouTube. When the white coats take away Young-Goon’s grandmother,...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Vincent Van Gogh
© ouzo portokali with CCLicense The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. -– Vincent van Gogh
View ArticleQuote for Today: E.E. Cummings
since feeling is first who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you; wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Jonathan Culver
Inscription: Man must have chaos within himself to give birth to a shining star. –Nietsche© Lena Hades with CCLicense Artists are agents of chaos. It is the artists job to encourage entropy, to promote...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Robert Louis Stevenson
© RachelEllen with CCLicense I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head; And I...
View ArticleQuote for Today: T.S. Eliot
© Prasad Kholkute with CCLicense What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you know only A heap of broken images, where the...
View ArticleQuote for Today: F. Sionil José
Cloud Gate by Anish KapoorCC Licensed Image © sicklittlemonkey There is nothing in the world which an artist cannot recreate into something poetic, ennobling. And why do we read these things? They are...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Annie Dillard
© Heath Alseike with CCLicense What do I make of all this texture? What does it mean about the kind of world in which I have been set down? The texture of the world, its filigree and scrollwork, means...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Terry Tempest Williams
© svenwerk with CCLicense “Once you know that you have a voice,” Louis said, “it’s no longer the voice that matters, but what is behind the voice.” ―Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds:...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Haruki Marukami
© CL Stock with CCLicense It was a rambling, incoherent dream without any setting. All that was there was a feeling of being in motion. Aomame was ceaselessly moving through time and space. It didn’t...
View ArticleQuote for Today: William H. Gass
© Finalrobo101 with CCLicense The word itself has another color. It’s not a word with any resonance, although the e was once pronounced. There is only the bump now between b and l, the relief at the...
View ArticleQuote for Today: George MacDonald
© Franca Leyendecker with CCLicense Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call reality? — not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier? Fair as is the gliding sloop on the shining...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Alexander McCall Smith
Jarlshof archaeological site, Sumburgh, Shetland© gordontour with CCLicense Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably clear. More precious,...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Oliver Sacks
© Camil Tulcan with CCLicense To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see...
View ArticleQuote for Today: David Baldacci
Sapporo subway train© mehan with CCLicense It’s not getting from A to B. It’s not the beginning or the destination that counts. It’s the ride in between…This train is alive with things that should be...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
© O.F.E. with CCLicense Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station. ―Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
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