Quote for Today: Beryl Markham
I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except …
Quote for Today: Téa Obreht
When your fight has purpose–to free you from something, to interfere on the behalf of an innocent–it has a hope of finality. When the fight is about unraveling–when it is …
Quote for Today: Mary Rose O’Reilley
Whatever your eye falls on – for it will fall on what you love – will lead you to the questions of your life, the questions that are incumbent …
Quote for Today: Thomas Mann
There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena …
Unearthly Appetites: Italo Calvino’s The Distance of the Moon
Humanity crosses increasing distances searching for new territory to explore. Is the distance between and within us threatening our survival? Italo Calvino published Cosmicomics, a book of fantastic short stories …
Quote for Today: Toni Morrison
And in all those escapes he could not help being astonished by the beauty of this land that was not his. He hid in its breast, fingered its earth for …