Sara McAulay’s “In the beginning” wins our “Flow” poetry contest
Synkroniciti is pleased to select “In the beginning” by Sara McAulay as the winner of the “Flow” poetry contest. This poem is not only formally striking and filled with beautiful …
Synkroniciti is pleased to select “In the beginning” by Sara McAulay as the winner of the “Flow” poetry contest. This poem is not only formally striking and filled with beautiful …
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this …
Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, the several kinds being …
In life, most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. All the improvisation teacher has to do is to reverse this skill and he creates very ‘gifted’ improvisers. Bad …
But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn’t about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the …
Our problem isn’t that we’re individualists. It’s that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we …
Going easy on ourselves also reflects a key cognitive fact: we judge ourselves by our internal motives and everyone else by their external actions. And thus, in considering our own …
Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is …
We must do everything we are obliged to do; give without reckoning, practice virtue whenever opportunity offers, constantly overcome ourselves, prove our love by all the little acts of tenderness …
Imagine you are on a high cliff and lose your footing and begin to fall. Just beside you as you fall is a branch sticking out of the very edge …