Quote for Today: Bill Bryson
These Cro-Magnon people were identical to us: they had the same physique, the same brain, the same looks. And, unlike all previous hominids who roamed the earth, they could choke …
“The Alien of Old Springville Road and Medina Drive” by Lori Lasseter Hamilton wins our “Intersections” Poetry Contest
Synkroniciti is excited to reveal the winner of our “Intersections” poetry contest, Lori Lasseter Hamilton’s “The Alien of Old Springville Road and Medina Drive.” This powerful poem explores the intersectionality …
Quote for Today: Georges Perec
I would like there to exist places that are stable, unmoving, intangible, untouched and almost untouchable, unchanging, deep-rooted; places that might be points of reference, of departure, of origin: …
Quote for Today: Henri Nouwen
Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer …
Quote for Today: André Breton
Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself. ― André Breton, Mad Love Photo by Ilona Panych on Unsplash
Quote for Today: Ursula K. Le Guin
It is hard to meet a stranger. Even the greatest extravert meeting even the meekest stranger knows a certain dread, though he may not know he knows it. Will he …
Quote for Today: Salman Rushdie
Everywhere was now a part of everywhere else. Russia, America, London, Kashmir. Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another’s, were no longer our own, individual, discrete. This unsettled people. …
Quote for Today: Jessica Gaitán Johannesson
For those who haven’t yet experienced climate collapse in our own bodies, a history not yet written into us, the feeling it arrives in the shape of shadows, an atmospheric …
Quote for Today: Ava DuVernay
I talk a lot about my challenge with permission and the culture of permission in which we live. Women, people of color, and anyone outside of the dominant gaze …
Quote for Today: Reni Eddo-Lodge
If you are disgusted by what you see, and if you feel the fire coursing through your veins, then it’s up to you. You don’t have to be the …