Quote for Today: Ursula K. LeGuin
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains. —Ursula K. LeGuin Image by WikiImages from Pixabay
Quote for Today: Bell Hooks
To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter …
Quote for Today: Charlotte Eriksson
It was a very ordinary day, the day I realised that my becoming is my life and my home and that I don’t have to do anything but trust the …
Quote for Today: William Least Heat Moon
All of those things–rock and men and river–resisted change, resisted the coming as they did the going. (Mount) Hood warmed and rose slowly, breaking open the plain, and cooled …
Quote for Today: Phil Cousineau
The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of change within us; the uncanny discovery that the …
Quote for Today: Brandon Sanderson
There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person’s life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn’t take one step, then find yourself in a completely new location. You …
Look and Listen #31: The Activism of Sofia Ashraf
Sofia Ashraf was raised in a conservative Muslim family in south India, but she always loved the stage. Despite coming from a household where musical instruments were banned and nice …
Quote for Today: Black Elk
The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its …
Quote for Today: Jon Kabat-Zinn
We resonate with one another’s sorrows because we are interconnected. Being whole and simultaneously part of a larger whole, we can change the world simply by changing ourselves. If I …
Look and Listen #16: Kerry James Marshall
American painter Kerry James Marshall talks about his strategy to raise his aesthetic into mainstream art, to paint the things he values in the world. What we focus on as …