Quote for Today: Munia Khan
I’ve learnt to gather simplicity from grasshoppers. I like their naive indecisive minds never knowing exactly when to stop chirping, and I envy their ability to be able to mingle …
Quote for Today: Rainer Maria Rilke
She was no longer that woman with blue eyes who once had echoed through the poet’s songs, no longer the wide couch’s scent and island, and that man’s property no …
The Tragedy of Roots: To a Dancer by Katherine McDaniel
Dance can circumvent words and create bonds across cultures. Could we allow the empathy it creates guide our daily lives? To a Dancer is a poem I wrote for a variety …
Quote for Today: Roman Payne
Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or …
Quote for Today: Mehmet Murat İldan
The Earth loves us through its gravity and this love is ideal: It neither sticks to us nor lets us fly into the unknown darkness! ―Mehmet Murat İldan
Quote for Today: William Golding
Now we, if not in the spirit, have been caught up to see our earth, our mother, Gaia Mater, set like a jewel in space. We have no excuse now …
Quote for Today: Frida Kahlo
I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like …
Quote for Today: L. Frank Baum
No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There …
Quote for Today: Truman Capote
She was still hugging the cat. “Poor slob,” she said, tickling his head, “poor slob without a name. It’s a little inconvenient, his not having a name. But I haven’t …
Voice, Language and Belonging: Renee Liang’s Chinglish
Children of immigrants often feel as if they belong nowhere, that no one comprehends their unique voice. The language and customs of their parents homeland may be confining, unfamiliar and …